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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 .
Nkem Nwankwo (1936–2001), novelist, poet; Flora Nwapa (1931–1993), novelist; Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani (born 1976), novelist, humorist, essayist and journalist; Onuora Nzekwu (1928–2017) Onyeka Nwelue (born 1988) Chuma Nwokolo (born 1963), writer, poet, humorist, essayist and lawyer; Abdul Rasheed Na'Allah (born 1962), writer, poet, scholar ...
Hawad (1950– ), Tuareg poet currently living in France; Hélène Kaziende (1967– ), teacher, journalist and short story writer [1] Salihu Kwantagora (1929– ), songwriter and poet; Abdoulaye Mamani (1932–1993), poet, novelist and trade unionist; Ide Oumarou (1937–2002), politician, diplomat and writer
Nigerian literature may be roughly defined as the literary writing by citizens of the nation of Nigeria for Nigerian readers, addressing Nigerian issues. This encompasses writers in a number of languages, including not only English but Igbo , Urhobo , Yoruba , and in the northern part of the county Hausa and Nupe . [ 1 ]
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)
In 2009, she received the Nigerian National Order of Merit Award (NNOM) for lifetime achievements. [8] In 2015, the Society of Young Nigerian Writers under the leadership of Wole Adedoyin founded the Mabel Segun Literary Society, aimed at promoting and reading the works of Mabel Segun. [9] In 2007, Segun was awarded the LNG Nigeria Prize for ...
Ijeoma Umebinyuo is a Nigerian poet. She is considered one of Sub-Saharan Africa's best modern poets. [1] Her short stories and poems have appeared in publications such as The Stockholm Review of Literature, [2] The Rising Phoenix Review [3] and The MacGuffin. Her TEDx talk was called "Dismantling The Culture of Silence". [1]
Gabriel Imomotimi Okara (24 April 1921 – 25 March 2019) [1] was a Nigerian poet [2] and novelist who was born in Bumoundi in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.The first modernist poet of Anglophone Africa, he is best known for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964), and his award-winning poetry, published in The Fisherman's Invocation (1978) [3] and The Dreamer, His Vision (2005). [4]