Adaora Lily Ulasi was a Nigerian journalist and novelist. As a journalist she has worked for the BBC and Voice of America. As a novelist she may have been the first Nigerian to write detective fiction in English, “adapting the genre of the crime thriller to a Igbo or Yoruba context”. NAME: Adaora Lily Ulasi DATE […]
NAME: Amos Tutuola DATE OF BIRTH: 20 June 1920 PLACE OF BIRTH: FATHER: Charles MOTHER: Esther MARRIED TO: Victoria Alake CHILDREN: 8 Children, four sons and four daughters. OCCUPATION: Author EDUCATION: Anglican Central School in Abeokuta CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Writing PUBLICATIONS: The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1946, published 1952) My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954) Simbi and the Satyr […]
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honoured in that category NAME: Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka DATE OF BIRTH: 13 July 1934 (age 83 years) PLACE OF BIRTH: Abeokuta MARRIED TO: Folake Doherty-Soyinka CHILDREN: Olaokun Soyinka, Moremi […]
Lola Shoneyin. Lola Shoneyin (born Titilola Atinuke Alexandrah Shoneyin; 26 February 1974 in Ibadan, Nigeria) is a Nigerian poet and author who launched her debut novel, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, in the UK in May 2010. NAME: Lola Shoneyin DATE OF BIRTH: 26 February 1974 PLACE OF BIRTH: Ibadan, Nigeria FATHER: Chief Tinuoye Shoneyin […]
NAME: Suleiman Adamu DATE OF BIRTH: PLACE OF BIRTH: Kano State. EDUCATION: Adamu suleiman attended jimeta elementary school between 1940 and 1944. And yola middle school up till 1947. He was also a student of the famous barewa college zaria between 1947 and 1950. He also attended the college of technology, zaria between 1954 and 1956 […]
NAME: Ibrahim Sheme DATE OF BIRTH: 1966 or 1967 PLACE OF BIRTH: Faskari Local Government Area, Katsina State, OCCUPATION: Bilingual Nigerian writer, journalist, filmmaker and publisher EDUCATION: Maigamji Primary School and Ruwan-Godiya Primary School, University of Wales, Cardiff (M.A) Bayero University (B.A) CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Filmmaking PUBLICATIONS: Cramped Rooms and Open Spaces: An Anthology of New Short Fiction (for ANA): […]
NAME: Anthony Anwuka DATE OF BIRTH: 22nd April, 1951 PLACE OF BIRTH:Egbuoma Town of Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State EDUCATION: His academic prowess had taken him outside Nigeria for higher studies. He did his doctorate degree programme in General Curriculum, System Analysis and Social Studies at the University of Washington Seattle, USA in 1977. […]