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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.
The following is a List of Urdu-language poets 13th century. Poet Image Pen Name Era Work Amir Khusro (1253–1325) Tuhfat-us-Sigh Bande Nawaz (1321–1442) ...
21st-century Nigerian poets (57 P) + Nigerian LGBTQ poets (1 P) Nigerian male poets (61 P) Nigerian women poets (21 P) A. Nigerian Arabic-language poets (11 P)
Tomi Adeyemi (born 1993), novelist and writing coach; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977), novelist and poet; S. A. Afolabi (born 1966), novelist, short-story writer; Adedayo Agarau (born 1994), poet and essayist; O-Jeremiah Agbaakin (born 1994), poet; Ifeoma Aggrey-Fynn (d. 2015), writer; Tolu Ajayi (born 1946), poet and writer of fiction ...
Nuṣratī wrote in the Deccani variety of Urdu and Persian. [8] His poetry uses archaic language and a complex style. [2] He was a prominent practitioner of the qaṣīda, ghazal and especially mathnawī forms. [9] One of his earliest works, Miʿrāj-nāma, was written for Sultan Muḥammad ʿĀdil Shāh (r. 1627–1656). [10]
This is a list of notable Urdu-language 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 .
Waheed Akhtar (1934–1996), Urdu poet, writer, critic, orator, and one of the leading Muslim scholars and philosophers of the 20th century Baqer Amanatkhani (1905-1990), urdu poet, wrote 36 Marsiyas, more than 435 salaams, 200 Nauhas totalling more than 40,000 couplets in praise of Ahlulbayt.