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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 .
Aisha Ochuwa Tella was born on 22 April, 1994 in Lagos State, Nigeria but originally hails from Auchi, Edo State. She completed her primary and secondary education in Lagos State . Later on, she acquired a Diploma in Criminology and a LL.B degree with a Second Class Upper Division – both from Babcock University [ 2 ]
More than 80 titles published in the series were by Nigerian writers, who were followed by South Africans, Kenyans, Ghanaians, and Zimbabweans. In the first two decades, nearly all were men and it was only in the 1990s that books by women began to appear regularly. Some exceptions to this are early books by Flora Nwapa and Buchi Emecheta. [1]
Glory Okon Edim is a Nigerian-American writer and entrepreneur. [1] She is best known as the founder of the reading network Well-Read Black Girl. Edim received the 2017 Innovator's Award at the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for her work.
Pacesetter Novels are a collection of 130 works of popular fiction written by notable African authors, published by Macmillan. [1] The series was started in 1977, with the first book being Director! by Agbo Areo.
Born as the third child of seven children in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, Ibukun completed her primary and secondary school education at St. Paul's African Church Primary School, Lagos and Methodist Girls' High School, Yaba respectively before she proceeded to the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) where she graduated with a BSc in Chemistry although she had initially ...
He was the founding organizer of the BookJam reading series [21] in Lagos, Nigeria, which featured the writers Jude Dibia, Michela Wrong, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Binyavanga Wainaina, Helon Habila and Tsitsi Dangarembga, among others. Barrett's work has appeared in several publications, including Al Jazeera English [22] and The Guardian. [23]