Category: Prose

Background: Elechi Amadi (12 May 1934 – 29 June 2016) was a former member of the Nigerian Armed Forces. He...

Background: Camara Laye (January 1, 1928 – February 4, 1980) was born to a peasant workman in Kouroussa, a town...

Background Eghosa Imasuen (1976—) is a medical doctor and a writer. Although he was born in Ibadan in Oyo State,...

Background Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta popularly known as Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017) was born on July 21, 1944 to Igbo parents in...

Background Kaine Agary was born and brought up in Port Harcourt, South-South Nigeria. She has lived in the United States...

Context Nawal El Saadawi was born in the Egyptian village of Kafr Tahla in 1931. Her father was a civil...

Background Theodora Adimora-Ezeigbo (1947—) was born on November 2, 1947 to Joshua and Christiana Adimora in Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria....

Context Albert Chinualumogu Achebe(1930-2013) was born on November 16, 1930, in Ogidi, a large village in Nigeria. Although he was...

Background Isidore Okpewho (1941—2016) is a well known classical scholar. Born in 1941 in Abraka, Delta State in South-south region...

Context Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017) is one of a growing number of African women writers who have set their authorial eyes...