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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 .
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]
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; Nana Asmau (1793–1864) Odafe Atogun, writer; Sefi Atta (born 1964), novelist, short-story writer and playwright; Adaeze Atuegwu (born 1977), novelist and ...
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
Post 2010 Nigerian literature focuses on real life in metropolitan Nigeria and the influence of social networks on Nigerian social life. Among the younger Nigerian authors is Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, who won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the best debut novel with I Do Not Come to You by Chance in 2010. It describes the story of a young ...
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 ...
Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. [1] Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, [2] [3] Okri has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. [4]
Menkiti was born in Onitsha, Nigeria in 1940. [1] In 1961, he arrived in the United States to study at Pomona College, where he graduated in 1964. [1] [3] Following postgraduate study at Columbia University and New York University, Menkiti earned a PhD in philosophy from Harvard in 1974. [7] [8] His dissertation was "a study of collective ...