Nigerian Writer
1. Jeff Unaegbu (1979)
Nigerian Writer
A Nigerian author, artist, actor, and filmmaker, he is best known for Freedom in Our Bones and other works of non-fiction. He also published a short story collection entitled This...
2. Wole Soyinka (1934)
Nigerian Writer
The first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, he wrote A Dance of The Forests and the poetry collection The Ballad of the Landlord.
3. Ben Okri (1959)
Nigerian Writer
Booker Prize for Fiction award winning poet and novelist who acted as the poetry editor of West Africa magazine. He was also a regular contributor to BBC World Service from 1983-1985.
4. Chika Unigwe (1974)
Nigerian Writer
Chika Nina Unigwe is a Nigerian-born author and she writes in English and Dutch.
5. Rosemary Esehagu (1981)
Nigerian Writer
Rosemary Esehagu is a Nigerian writer. She was born and raised in Lagos Nigeria to a family of six children. In 1997 she came to the United States to advance...
6. Catherine Obianuju Acholonu (1951)
Nigerian Writer
Catherine Obianuju Acholonu was a Nigerian writer researcher and former lecturer on African Cultural and Gender Studies. She was the former Senior Special Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Arts...
7. Philip Begho (1956)
Nigerian Writer
Philip Begho is an award-winning Nigerian writer the author of more than forty books. Born in Warri Delta State of an Itsekiri father and a mother of mixed race he...
8. Myne Whitman (1977)
Nigerian Writer
Myne Whitman is a writer editor and publisher from Nigeria. She is the author of two romance novels both of which rose to the top of Amazon. com bestseller lists...
9. Flora Nwapa (1931)
Nigerian Writer
Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa was a Nigerian author best known as Flora Nwapa. Her novel Efuru is among the first English-language novels by a woman from Africa.
10. Jumoke Verissimo (1979)
Nigerian Writer
Jumoke Verissimo is a Nigerian poet and writer. Her first book I Am Memory has won some literary awards in Nigeria. Some of her poems are in translation in Italian...
11. Niyi Osundare (Unknow)
Nigerian Writer
Niyi Osundare is a prolific poet dramatist and literary critic. He gained degrees at the University of Ibadan the University of Leeds and York University Canada. Previously professor and Head...
12. Tanure Ojaide (Unknow)
Nigerian Writer
Tanure Ojaide is a prolific Nigerian poet and writer.
13. Mabel Segun (Unknow)
Nigerian Writer
Mabel Segun is a Nigerian poet and writer. Born in Ondo Nigeria she attended the University of Ibadan graduating in 1953 with a BA in English Latin and History. She...
14. Lola Shoneyin (1974)
Nigerian Writer
Lola Shoneyin is a Nigerian poet and author who launched her debut novel The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives in the UK in May 2009. Shoneyin has already forged...
15. Gabriel Okara (1921)
Nigerian Writer
Gabriel jibaba Okara is a Nigerian poet and novelist who was born in Bomoundi in Bayelsa State Nigeria. In 1979 he was awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
16. Diego Odoh Okenyodo (1974)
Nigerian Writer
Odoh Diego Okenyodo is a Nigerian writer pharmacist activist poet and journalist who is one of the founders of Kaduna Writers' League KWL. He is also one of the Directors...
17. Helon Habila (1967)
Nigerian Writer
Helon Habila is a Nigerian novelist and poet. He worked as a lecturer and journalist in Nigeria before moving to England to become the African Writing Fellow at the University...
18. A. Igoni Barrett (1979)
Nigerian Writer
Adrian Igonibo Barrett is a Nigerian writer.
19. Denrele Edun (1983)
Nigerian Writer
Adenrele Olufemi Denrele Edun known mononymously as Denrele is a Nigerian TV presenter for Channel O. He was also a TV presenter for Soundcity.
