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The poem "Ode to Joy" on a wall in the Dutch city of Leiden. Christopher Abani (born 27 December 1966) is a Nigerian American and Los Angeles- based author. He says he is part of a new generation of Nigerian writers working to convey to an English-speaking audience the experience of those born and raised in "that troubled African nation".
Pages in category "Poems adapted into films" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aniara;
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 .
Odia Ofeimun (born 16 March 1950) [1] is a Nigerian poet and polemicist, the author of many volumes of poetry, books of political essays and on cultural politics, and the editor of two significant anthologies of Nigerian poetry. His work has been widely anthologized and translated and he has read and performed his poetry internationally. [1]
"Kofi Awoonor's Until the Morning After: Collected Poems 1963-1985 was to have been AWS number 260, but was apparently withdrawn by the author and instead published by Greenfield Review Press, New York, in 1987." [20] 261: Anyidoho, Kofi: 1984: A Harvest of our Dreams, with Elegy for the Revolution: poems. 262: Nagenda, John: 1986: The Seasons ...
Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. [1] Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, [2] [3] Okri has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. [4]
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Guite is the author of five books of poetry, including two chapbooks and three full-length collections, as well as several books on Christian faith and theology. Guite has a decisively simple, formalist style in poems, many of which are sonnets , and he stated that his aim is to "be profound without ceasing to be beautiful". [ 1 ]