Biography Intro: Zainab ahmed is a nigerian politician. Following the nigerian general elections, 2015, she was appointed as the minister of state for budget and national planning by president muhammadu buhari. NAME: Zainab Ahmed PLACE OF BIRTH: Kaduna State. EDUCATION: She got her first degree in Accounting from Ahmadu Bello University in 1981, after-which she […]
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): […]