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The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) is a non-profit organization that promotes Nigerian literature. It represents Nigerian creative writers at home and abroad. It was founded in 1981 by Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe as its president. [1] [2] The immediate past President is Alhaji Denja Abdullahi.
Nnedi Okorafor (born 1974), writer of fantasy and science fiction; Ifeoma Okoye (born 1937), novelist; Chinelo Okparanta (born 1981), novelist and short-story writer; Isidore Okpewho (born 1941), novelist, critic; Ben Okri (born 1959), poet, novelist; Suyi Davies Okungbowa (born 1989), fantasy and science fiction author; Afolabi Olabimtan (1932 ...
Post 2010 Nigerian literature focuses on real life in metropolitan Nigeria and the influence of social networks on Nigerian social life. Among the younger Nigerian authors is Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, who won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the best debut novel with I Do Not Come to You by Chance in 2010. It describes the story of a young ...
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Ten alleged members of a Nigerian email scam crime ring have been indicted on federal charges of swindling at least two dozen victims nationwide out of some $1.5 million, the U.S. Attorney for the ...
Perpetuating his country's unfortunate association with internet scams, a Nigerian man has turned to a new source for ill-gotten money: home renters. No tall tales of fake Nigerian royalty or ...
Catherine Obianuju Acholonu (26 October 1951 – 18 March 2014) was a Nigerian author, researcher and political activist. [1] She served as the Senior Special Adviser (SSA) to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Arts and Culture and was a founder-member of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA).
419 is a novel by Canadian writer Will Ferguson.Published by Penguin Canada in 2012, the novel was the winner of the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize. [1]Titled for the section of the Nigerian Criminal Code that deals with fraud, the events of the novel are set in motion by Henry Curtis, a retired school teacher in Calgary, Alberta, who dies in a car accident after becoming embroiled in an advance ...