Nigerian Writers
Bello Kagara: Pioneer of Hausa Creative Prose and Author of Gandoki
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) Bello Kagara (1890–1971) occupies a foundational place in the history of Hausa liter…
Nigerian Writers
Nigerian Writers
Festus Iyayi: Nigerian Novelist, Marxist Thinker, and Voice of Social Realism
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) Festus Iyayi (1947–2013) remains one of Nigeria’s most influential novelists and in…
Nigerian Writers
Eddie Iroh: Nigerian Novelist and Chronicler of the Civil War Experience
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) Eddie Iroh (b. 1945, Nigeria) stands out among the generation of Nigerian writers w…
Nigerian Writers
Abubakar Imam: Pioneer of Modern Hausa Literature and Journalism in Nigeria
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) Abubakar Imam (1911–1981) stands as one of the most influential figures in the deve…
Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike
Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike: Life, Works, and Legacy in Nigerian Literature
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike (1931–2020) stands as one of Nigeria’s most remarkable lite…
Nigerian Writers
James Ene Henshaw: Nigeria’s Pioneer Playwright and Social Dramatist
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) James Ene Henshaw (1924–2007) occupies a central place in the history of African dr…
Nigerian Writers
Bakare Gbadamosi: Yoruba Poet, Anthropologist, and Preserver of Oral Tradition
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) Bakare A. Gbadamosi, born in 1930 in Nigeria, is a distinguished Yoruba poet, anth…
Nigerian Writers
D.O. Fagunwa: The Yoruba Literary Pioneer Who Shaped African Fiction
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) Daniel Olorunfemi Fagunwa (1903–1963) stands as one of the most influential figures…
Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano: Pioneer of African, Afro-British, and African-American Literature
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) Olaudah Equiano (1745–1797) stands as one of the most influential figures in the hi…
Nolue Emenanjo
Nolue Emenanjo: Pioneer of Igbo Language Development and Literary Scholarship
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) ’Nolue Emenanjo (Emmanuel Nwanolue Emenanjo), born in 1943 in Katsina State, Nigeri…
Nigerian Writers
Buchi Emecheta: Life, Works, and Legacy of a Trailblazing Nigerian Novelist
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017) stands as one of Africa’s most influential literary voic…
Nigerian Writers
Cyprian Ekwensi: The Controversial Pioneer of Nigerian Urban Literature
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) Cyprian Ekwensi (1921–2007) stands as one of the most prolific and unconventional f…
Obi Egbuna
Obi Egbuna: Pan-Africanist Voice and Controversial Figure in Nigerian Literature
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) Obi Egbuna, born in 1938 in Eastern Nigeria, is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, an…
T. Obinkaram Echewa
T. Obinkaram Echewa: Nigerian Novelist of Precolonial Memory and Historical Reflection
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) T. Obinkaram Echewa (b. 1938, Aba, Eastern Nigeria) occupies a unique place in Nige…
Olympe Bhêly-Quénum
Olympe Bhêly-Quénum: Voice of a Postcolonial Conscience
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) Olympe Bhêly-Quénum stands as one of the most distinctive literary and intellectual …
Nigerian Writers
Biyi Bandele-Thomas: Reimagining African Realities Through Dreams, Madness, and Metafiction
(toc) #title= (Table of Content) In the ever-evolving landscape of African literature, few writers have so daringly …