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Pages in category "20th-century Nigerian dramatists and playwrights" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Onitsha Market Literature emerged in the early 1950s with locally written romances and practical pamphlets, published by printers in the eastern Nigerian town of Onitsha. Initially aimed at generating income during slow months, the movement gained momentum after the 1956 success of Ogali A. Ogali's bestselling Veronica My Daughter: A Drama.
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 ]
Wisdom is an Asset (Magana Jari Ce listen ⓘ, rendered more loosely by Rupert East as "[the] ability to tell stories is a valuable possession" [2]) is a trilogy of novels by Abubakar Imam of the Northern Nigeria Protectorate, jointly regarded as one of the most significant literary works authored in the Hausa language.
Also: Nigeria: People: By occupation: Theatre people / Writers: Dramatists and playwrights Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Zaynab Alkali (born 1950), novelist, short-story writer and academic; T. M. Aluko (1918–2010), novelist and autobiographer; Elechi Amadi (1934–2016), novelist; Ifi Amadiume (born 1947), poet, anthropologist and essayist; Karen King-Aribisala, short-story writer, novelist and academic; Yemisi Aribisala (born 1973), essayist and food memoirist
Legend has it that Adikpo Songo from Akpagher; Mbatyav in the present day Gboko local government area of Benue State, Nigeria, was the originator of Kwagh-hir.Adikpo Songu, in an interview with Iyorwuese Hagher, a scholar of Kwagh-hir, attempted to corroborate this view held by several kwagh-hir group leaders and notable elders in Tivland.
The Aláàrìnjó tradition influenced the Yoruba traveling theatre, which was the most prevalent and highly developed form of theatre in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s. In the 1990s, the Yoruba traveling theatre moved into television and film and now gives live performances only rarely. [5] "Total theatre" also developed in Nigeria in the ...