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Dike Chukwumerije is a Nigerian spoken word and performance poetry artist and author. He has eight published books, including the novel Urichindere, which won the 2013 Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prize for Prose Fiction [1] [2] and a poetry theatre production made in Nigeria.
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 .
Nduka Anthony Otiono hails from Ogwashi-Ukwu in Delta State, south-southern Nigeria but was born in Kano (the capital city of Kano State, northern Nigeria). [1] [7] [8] He earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Alberta in Canada (2011) in addition to a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English and an MA in English from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 1987 and 1990 respectively.
Michael Echeruo (born 1937), poet, critic; Amatoritsero (Godwin) Ede; Chike Frankie Edozien; Philip Effiong (1925–2003); Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki; Cyprian Ekwensi (1921–2007), novelist, short-story writer
The National Film and Video Censors Board [67] controls non-print media and has stopped the publication of a few films in 2002, due to displaying "obscene acts among young women". [68] The Reporters without Borders World Press Freedom Index ranked Nigeria 115th out of 180 countries in 2020. This is better than Morocco (133) or Turkey (154), but ...
Odia Ofeimun was born in Iruekpen-Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria, in 1950. [1] He worked as a news reporter, factory labourer and civil servant before studying Political Science at the University of Ibadan, where his poetry won first prize in the University Competition of 1975. [2]
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.
Abdalla Uba Adamu (pronunciation ⓘ) (born 25 April 1956) is a Nigerian academic, educator, publisher, filmmaker, ethnomusicologist, and media scholar. [1] He hold double professorships in Science Education (1997) and Media and Cultural Communication (2012).