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This is a list of notable poets from Nigeria This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Niyi Osundare is a Nigerian poet, dramatist, linguist, and literary critic. Born on 12 March 1947, in Ikere-Ekiti, [1] Nigeria, his poetry is influenced by the oral poetry of his Yoruba culture, which he hybridizes with other poetic traditions of the world, including African-American, Latin American, Asian, and European.
Maryam is an indigene of Biu, Borno State, Nigeria. She is the only daughter of Hauwa Maina , a prominent Nigerian actress. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Maryam completed her secondary education at Uncle Bado Memorial College Kaduna and later studied Information Technology at Radford University College Ghana , which is an affiliate of Kwame Nkrumah University .
Menkiti was born in Onitsha, Nigeria in 1940. [1] In 1961, he arrived in the United States to study at Pomona College, where he graduated in 1964. [1] [3] Following postgraduate study at Columbia University and New York University, Menkiti earned a PhD in philosophy from Harvard in 1974. [7] [8] His dissertation was "a study of collective ...
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His poem titled "Another Verse for Bola", a suggestive love (birthday) poem written in 2010 was shortlisted as one of the best love poems and published by Forward Poetry UK. [11] In 2016, Ramos wrote a very popular poetic rejoinder to Professor Niyi Osundare's poem that satirized the Nigerian Judiciary and legal profession titled "My Lord ...
Born in the city of Enugu, southeastern part of Nigeria, Udechukwu is the daughter of an Igbo father and an American mother. [1]When the Eastern part of Nigeria attempted to break out of Nigeria to form what was called the Republic of Biafra, this led to a civil war in Nigeria which was generally called the Biafran war of 1967–70.
This is a list of Nigerian writers This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .