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List Of Nigerian Writers
This is a list of Nigerian writers. A *Chris Abani (born 1966), novelist, playwright and poet * Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (born 1998), novelist *Chinua Achebe (1930–2013), novelist, poet and critic *Catherine Obianuju Acholonu (born 1951), academic *Ayobami Adebayo (born 1988), novelist *Remi Adedeji (born 1937), children's writer and academic editor *Abimbola Adelakun, novelist *Sade Adeniran, novelist and filmmaker * Saheed Aderinto (born 1979), author and academic *Akin Adesokan, novelist and scholar *Toyin Adewale-Gabriel (born 1969), poet *Tomi Adeyemi (born 1993), novelist and writing coach *Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977), novelist and poet * S. A. Afolabi (born 1966), novelist, short-story writer * Ifeoma Aggrey-Fynn (d. 2015), writer * Tolu Ajayi (born 1946), poet and writer of fiction * Tolu Akinyemi, writer, poet *Dami Ajayi, poet, essayist *Yemi Ajibade (1929–2013), playwright and actor *Audrey Ajose (born 1937?), journalist and juvenile fiction write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Abani (32683010407)
Christopher Abani (born 27 December 1966) is a Nigerian-American and Los Angeles- based author. He says he is part of a new generation of Nigerian writers working to convey to an English-speaking audience the experience of those born and raised in "that troubled African nation". Biography Abani was born in Afikpo, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. His father was Igbo, while his mother was of English descent. Abani published his first novel, ''Masters of the Board'', in 1985 at the age of 16. It was a political thriller, the plot of which was an allegory based on a coup that was carried out in Nigeria just before it was written. He was imprisoned for six months on suspicion of an attempt to overthrow the government. He continued to write after his release from jail, but was imprisoned for one year after the publication of his 1987 novel ''Sirocco.'' During this time, he was held at the infamous Kiri Kiri prison, where he was tortured. After he was released from jail this time, he compos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tolu Akinyemi
Tolu Akinyemi, also referred to as Poetolu is a Nigerian writer and poet. His work is notable for its relatable insights and humorous take on everyday human experiences. Biography and education Tolu Akinyemi was born in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. His parents worked in the state government's civil service. He attended in the same city, Oyemekun Grammar School, where he was first an assistant senior prefect and later became the senior prefect. He then studied Architecture and Design at the Federal University of Technology Akure, earning a Bachelor of Technology degree in Architecture in 2008. In 2011 he obtained a Master of Science degree in Built Environment Studies from the University of Greenwich. He currently lives in London, England. Writing Tolu Akinyemi is the author of four collections of poetry. His first collection ''Your Father Walks Like A Crab'' published in 2013, was described by Lola Shoneyin as "a witty debut". In 2017 and 2018, he was named one of '100 most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana Asmau
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Yemisi Aribisala
Yemisi Aribisala (born 27 April 1973) is a Nigerian essayist, writer, painter, and food memoirist. She has been described as having a "fearless, witty, and unapologetic voice" Her work has been featured in ''The New Yorker'', ''Vogue magazine'', ''Chimurenga'', ''Popula'', ''Google Arts & Culture'', ''The Johannesburg Review of Books'', ''Critical Muslim 26: Gastronomy'', ''Sandwich Magazine (The African Scramble)'', ''The Guardian'' (UK), ''Aké Review'', and ''Olongo Africa''. Aribisala is renowned for her work in documenting Nigerian food as an entry point to thinking and understanding the culture and society. Her first book, ''Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex, and the Nigerian Taste Buds'', won the John Avery Prize at the André Simon Book Awards 2016. Her work has also appeared in '' New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent'' (edited by Margaret Busby); ''In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life'', and ''The Best American Food ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen King-Aribisala
Karen Ann King-Aribisala (born Guyana) is a Nigerian novelist, and short story writer. She is a Professor of English at the University of Lagos. Education She was educated at the International School Ibadan, St. George's British International School, Italy (where she met her future husband; Femi Aribisala), and the London Academy of Dramatic Arts. Works *''Our Wife and Other Stories'', Malthouse Press, 1990, ; Ottawa, Canada: Laurier Books, 2004, *'' Kicking Tongues'', Heinemann, 1998, *''The Hangman's Game'', Peepal Tree, 2007, * ''Bitter Leafing Woman and Other Stories'', Malthouse Press, 2017. Prizes and awards Her collection of stories, ''Our Wife and Other Stories'' won the 1991 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book Africa, and her novel ''The Hangman's Game'' won 2008 Best Book Africa. She also won grants from the Ford Foundation, British Council, Goethe Institute The Goethe-Institut (, GI, en, Goethe Institute) is a non-profit German cultura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ifi Amadiume
Ifi Amadiume (born 23 April 1947) is a Nigerian poet, anthropologist and essayist. She joined the Religion Department of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, United States, US, in 1993. Biography Born in Kaduna to Igbo people, Igbo parents, Ife Amadiume was educated in Nigeria before moving to Britain in 1971. She studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, gaining a BA (1978) and PhD (1983) in social anthropology respectively. She was a research fellow for a year at the University of Nigeria, Enugu, and taught and lectured in the UK, Canada, US and Senegal.Margaret Busby (ed.), "Ifi Amadiume", in ''Daughters of Africa'' (Cape, 1992), pp. 632–637. Her fieldwork in Africa resulted in two ethnographic monographs relating to the Igbo: ''African Matriarchal Foundations'' (1987), and the award-winning ''Male Daughters, Female Husband'' (Zed Press, 1987). The latter is considered groundbreaking owing to the fact that a number of years before the articulati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elechi Amadi
Elechi Amadi (12 May 1934 – 29 June 2016) was a Nigerian author and soldier. He was a former member of the Nigerian Armed Forces. He was an author of plays and novels that are generally about African village life, customs, beliefs, and religious practices prior to contact with the Western world. Amadi is best regarded for his 1966 debut novel, '' The Concubine'', which has been called "an outstanding work of pure fiction". Early life and education Born in 1934, in Mbodo-Aluu in what is now the Ikwerre local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria, Elechi Amadi attended Government College, Umuahia (1948–52), Survey School, Oyo (1953–54), and the University of Ibadan (1955–59), where he obtained a degree in Physics and Mathematics. While in university, he adopted the name Elechi Amadi, which he felt reflected his Ikwerre heritage more than his birth name, Emmanuel Elechi Daniel. Career He worked for a time as a land surveyor and later was a teacher at several schools, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaynab Alkali
Zaynab Alkali was born into the Tura-Mazila family of Borno and Adamawa States. For secondary education, she attended Queen Elizabeth Secondary School, Ilorin. Zaynab Alkali went on to obtain both her first and second degrees from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU)/BUK, Zaria. At Bayero University Kano (BUK), she studied English to a doctorate level. Life and education Alkali was born in Tura-Wazila in Borno State in 1950. She graduated from Bayero University Kano with a BA in 1973.Margaret Busby, ''Daughters of Africa'', London: Cape, 1992, p. 782. She obtained a doctorate in African Studies in the same university and became the principal of Shekara Girls' Boarding School. She went on to be a lecturer in English at two universities in Nigeria. She married the former vice-chancellor of the University of Maiduguri, Mohammed Nur Alkali, and they had six children. She rose to be a dean in the faculty of arts at Nasarawa State University in Keffi, where she taught creative writing. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akilu Aliyu
Alhaji Dr. Aliyu Akilu M.F.R (1918 – October 19, 1999) also known as Malam Akilu Aliyu or Aqilu Aliyu was a Nigerian poet, writer, scholar, politician and one of the greatest Hausa poets of the twentieth century. Biography Akliu Aliyu was born in Jega (in a town called Kyarmi, in present-day Kebbi State. Malam Akilu spent most of his life in Kano, a place he went as an Islamic student in his teens. He was in Maiduguri for a few decades before returning to Kano where he lived till his death. He lived as an Islamic teacher, a tailor and a poet (poetry was a medium through which he taught thousands of invisible students). He established, and taught in, Islamic schools in Maiduguri and Azare. Education For his early education, he was trained in a Quranic school in Kano, under the Tijaniyya brotherhood, and later went to Borno to study under prominent Islamic scholars from the northeastern part of the country. He was an erudite poet who wrote in Hausa and Arabic, and his r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hauwa Ali
Hauwa Ali (died 1995) was a Nigerian writer known for her novels exploring the lives of Muslim women and raising questions about Islamic values and women's independence. Her best-known novel, ''Destiny'', won the Delta prize for fiction. Life She was born in Gusau in northern Nigeria.Shirin Edwin"'Working' and 'Studying' Muslim Women: African Feminist Theory and the African Novel" ''Women's Studies, An inter-disciplinary journal'' , Volume 37, Issue 5, 2008. She taught at the University of Maiduguri and her novels were published in the late 1980s. In 1995 she died of breast cancer.Ezenwa-Ohaeto"Shaking the Veil: Islam, Gender and Feminist Configurations in the Nigerian Novels of Hauwa Ali and Zaynab Alkali" ''Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies'', 24(2–3) 1996. Writing Her fiction is written from the point of view of a young unmarried woman, and presents education as "the gateway to a successful, stimulating future". The central character of her first novel ''Destiny'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Akubuiro
Henry Akubuiro is a Nigerian literary journalist, novelist and short story writer. Early life and career Akubuiro graduated from the Department of English and Literary Studies, Imo State University, Owerri in 2003. He began his journalism career as an undergraduate at the university, where he became the pioneer editor of ''The Elite''—the student newspaper in Imo State University—and ''The Imo Star''—the newspaper of the Student Union Government. He won the 1998 BBC World Service The BBC World Service is an international broadcasting, international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC, with funding from the Government of the United Kingdom, British Government through the Foreign Secretary, Foreign Secretary's o ... Young Reporters' Competition and the National Essay Competition organised by the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports. And in 2005, he won the ANA Literary Journalist of the Year; while his unpublished juvenilia, ''Little Wizard of Okokomaiko' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uwem Akpan
Uwem Akpan is a Nigerian writer. He is the author of '' Say You're One of Them'' (2008), a collection of five stories (each set in a different African country) published by Little, Brown & Company. The book inspired Angelique Kidjo to write the song "Agbalagba". It made the Best of the Year list at ''People'' magazine, ''The Wall Street Journal'', and other places. ''The New York Times'' made it the Editor's Choice, and ''Entertainment Weekly'' listed it at #27 in their Best of the Decade. ''Say You're One of Them'' won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region), the Open Book Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. A ''New York Times'' and ''Wall Street Journal'' #1 bestseller, it has been translated into 12 languages. It won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and was picked by the Oprah Winfrey Book Club September 17, 2009, in Central Park. Two months later, Oprah interviewed Uwem in Chicago as part of her bookclub event with Anderson Cooper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
