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  2. List of Nigerian poets - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Ijeoma Umebinyuo - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Category:Nigerian poets - Wikipedia

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    21st-century Nigerian poets (57 P) + Nigerian LGBTQ poets (1 P) Nigerian male poets (61 P) Nigerian women poets (21 P) A. Nigerian Arabic-language poets (11 P)

  5. Nana Asmaʼu - Wikipedia

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    Nana Asmaʾu (pronunciation ⓘ; full name: Asmaʾu bint Shehu Usman dan Fodiyo pronunciation ⓘ, Arabic: نانا أسماء بنت عثمان فودي; 1793–1864) was a Fula princess, poet, teacher, and a daughter of the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, Usman dan Fodio. [1]

  6. Nigerian literature - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  7. Ben Okri - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Gabriel Okara - Wikipedia

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    Gabriel Imomotimi Okara (24 April 1921 – 25 March 2019) [1] was a Nigerian poet [2] and novelist who was born in Bumoundi in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.The first modernist poet of Anglophone Africa, he is best known for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964), and his award-winning poetry, published in The Fisherman's Invocation (1978) [3] and The Dreamer, His Vision (2005). [4]

  9. Niyi Osundare - Wikipedia

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    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.