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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]
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 ...
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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.
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]
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 ...
Association of Nigerian Authors 1992 Literary Award for Poetry. ISBN 978-1856498067; Returning; Circles of Love, Africa World Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1592214891; Voices Draped in Black, Africa World Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1592215935; Contributor on Poems for a Century: An Anthology on Nigeria, Amalion Publishing, 2014 ISBN 978-2359260335