NAME:Christopher Okigbo DATE OF BIRTH:16 August 1932 PLACE OF BIRTH: Ojoto,Onitsha in Anambra State OCCUPATION: poet, teacher, and librarian EDUCATION:Okigbo graduated from Government College Umuahia CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Upon Graduating In 1956, He Held A Succession Of Jobs In Various Locations Throughout The Country, While Making His First Forays Into Poetry. He Worked At The […]
NAME:Julius Ogunro DATE OF BIRTH:july 8, 1976 OCCUPATION: Nigerian journalist CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:Julius ogunro is a nigerian journalist,he worked with insider weekly magazine for over two years and won the best environmental reporter at the 2005 diamond awards for media excellence HONORS AND AWARDS:Best environmental reporter at the 2005 diamond awards for media excellence […]
Biography Intro: NAME:Gabriel Okara DATE OF BIRTH:April 21, 1921 PLACE OF BIRTH:Bumodi, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, OCCUPATION:poet and novelist EDUCATION: He was educated at government college umuahia, and later at yaba higher college. During world war ii, he attempted to enlist in the british royal air force but did not complete pilot training, instead he worked […]
Biography Intro: NAME: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani DATE OF BIRTH:1976 PLACE OF BIRTH:Enugu FATHER:Chief Sir Chukwuma Hope Nwaubani MOTHER:Dame Patricia Uberife Nwaubani OCCUPATION:Novelist EDUCATION: She studied Psychology at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria’s premier university CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: PUBLICATIONS: In Fear of Child-Snatchers Igbo Burials: How Nigerians will Bid Farewell to Achebe In Nigeria, You’re Either Somebody […]
Biography Intro:Okey Ndibe is the author of the novels Foreign Gods, Inc. and Arrows of Rain, the memoir, Never Look an American in the Eye: Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American, and co-editor of Writers Writing on Conflicts and Wars in Africa. The New York Times as well as Philadelphia […]
Biography Intro: Uzodinma Iweala is an American author and medical doctor of Nigerian descent. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work (in creative writing) at Harvard. NAME: Uzodinma Iweala DATE OF BIRTH: November 5, 1982 MOTHER: Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala OCCUPATION: Writer EDUCATION: Iweala attended St. Albans School in Washington D.C. and later Harvard College with an A.B., magna cum laude, in English and American Literature and […]
Biography Intro: Abubakar Imam O.B.E C.O.N, L.L.D (Hon.) N.N.M.C. (1911 – 1981) was a Nigerianwriter, journalist and politician from Kagara, Nigerin Nigeria.For most of his life, he lived in Zaria, where he was the first Hausa editor of Gaskiya Ta Fi Kwabo, the pioneer Newspaper in Northern Nigeria. NAME: Abubakar Imam O.B.E C.O.N, L.L.D (Hon.) N.N.M.C. DATE OF BIRTH: 1 February 1911 PLACE OF BIRTH: Kagara, Niger State, Nigeria. PARENT: Imam OCCUPATION: Journalist […]