Category: Literature – Fiction
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The Ozidi Saga; Play by J.P. Clark, a revenge tragedy based on an Ijaw myth about treachery and vengeance. Ozidi being a festival play and plucked from mythology, brims with African performance elements such as mime, music, dance/poetry and ritual. But behind the facade of myth, Ozidi packs a potent number of relevant socio-political comments…
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Amos Tutuola; (1920-97) Novelist counted among a unique group of mythmakers who deployed significant aspects of oral tradition not just as a flowery tribute to literary distinctiveness, but as a culminated contribution to the Nigerian literary space with both a didactic and functional signature. Tutuola is known for novels that chronicle tales of marvels and…
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Mabel Segun; Novelist, one of Nigeria’s first generation writers. Mabel Segun is the author of My Father’s Daughter, The First Corn, Olu and The Broken Statue, Youth Day Parade, The Twins and The Tree Spirits, and Sorry, No Vacancy[i]. Her last work before her comeback in 2010 was in 1998. And before that, she had…
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Ekwensi Cyprian; Novelist winner of Dag Hamtuarskjold International Merit Award. Ekwensi is one of Africa’s best short story writers of the 20th century. He is noted for his easy style of writing, and his creative works which spans a period of fifty years has been identified by the contemporaneous nature of its themes. Cyprian Ekwensi…
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Abubakar Adam Ibrahim; Nigerian writer, winner of the 2016 Nigeria Prize for Literature sponsored by the Nigeria LNG Limited. His winning novel, Season of Crimson Blossoms is a sympathetic narrative handling of a most psychologically and emotionally painful tale between an aging widow, who seeks release from her culturally imposed sexual repression, and a young…
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Kaine Agary; Author of Yellow-Yellow, a debut with which she won the 2008 NLNG Nigerian Prize for Literature. Agary was the first new generation writer to win the high-priced award. The 2007 edition produced Mabel Segun and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo as joint winners. Agary’s Yellow-Yellow is the story of Zilayefa, a young bi-racial girl in search…
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Nigerian novelist who having won the Commonwealth Literature prize with, the Purple Hibiscus in 2003 and the Orange Prize with Half of a Yellow Sun in 2006, became a serious sensational writer. Adichie’s unique approach to details in her works, singles her out from the rest. Her first book went on to…
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Chinua Achebe; Nigerian novelist who during the Langston Hughes award in 1993 was praised as the man who through clouds and mists saw the life of the people, whose vision was sharpened by careful watching, uplifting the people of the world’s villages by his vision. Achebe, a professor of English, won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize…