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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.
Ifeanyi Anthony Menkiti (24 August 1940 – 17 June 2019) [1] [2] was a Nigerian poet, philosopher, and professor, [3] [4] as well as the owner of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
His poem titled "Another Verse for Bola", a suggestive love (birthday) poem written in 2010 was shortlisted as one of the best love poems and published by Forward Poetry UK. [11] In 2016, Ramos wrote a very popular poetic rejoinder to Professor Niyi Osundare's poem that satirized the Nigerian Judiciary and legal profession titled "My Lord ...
As a poet she participated in Festac '77, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, [10] and her 1985 collection, Passion Waves, was nominated for the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. [4] She won the Flora Nwapa Society Award for her 2006 book of poetry, Circles of Love. [11]
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 ...
Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo (16 August 1932 – 1967) was a Nigerian poet, teacher, and librarian, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra.He is today widely acknowledged as an outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one of the major modernist writers of the 20th century.
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]