Pete Edochie, Nigerian actor, played the lead role in an NTA adaptation of what Nigerian novelist, poet, professor and critic's best selling novel?
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Pete Edochie Pete Edochie, MON (born 7 March 1947) is a Nigerian actor. Edochie is considered one of Africa’s most talented actors, being honoured with an Industry Merit Award by MultiChoice and Lifetime Achievement by Africa Film Academy Although a seasoned administrator and broadcaster, he came into prominence in the 1980s when he played the lead role of Okonkwo in an NTA adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s all-time best selling novel, "Things Fall Apart". Edochie descends from the Igbo people in Nigeria and is a Catholic. In 2003, he was honoured as a Member of the Order of the Niger by President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe ( , born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel "Things Fall Apart" (1958), often considered his best, is the most widely read book in modern African literature. He won the Man Booker International Prize in 2007.
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Bai T. Moore Bai Tamia Johnson Moore (October 12, 1916 – January 10, 1988), commonly known by his pen name Bai T. Moore, was a Liberian poet, novelist, folklorist and essayist. He held various cultural, educational and tourism posts both for the Liberian government and for UNESCO. He was the founder of Liberia's National Cultural Center. He is best known for his novella "Murder in the Cassava Patch" (1968), the tale of a "crime passionnel" in a traditional Liberian setting. It became such a classic in Liberian literature that it is still taught in high schools.
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Half of a Yellow Sun Half of a Yellow Sun is a novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Published in 2006 by Knopf/Anchor, the novel tells the story of the Biafran War through the perspective of the characters Olanna, Ugwu, and Richard.
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Adenike Akinsemolu Adenike Adebukola Akinsemolu is a Nigerian Environmental educator and a social entrepreneur. Adenike is a lecturer at Obafemi Awolowo University (Adeyemi College Campus). Adenike is known as one of the country’s leading expert on environmental sustainability.
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Niyi Osundare Niyi Osundare (born in 1947 in Ikere-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria) is a prolific poet, dramatist and literary critic. He gained degrees at the University of Ibadan (BA), the University of Leeds (MA) and York University, Canada (PhD, 1979). Previously professor (from 1989) and Head of English (1993–97) at the University of Ibadan, he became professor of English at the University of New Orleans in 1997. Osundare has a wife, Kemi, and three children, two girls and a son who still lives in Nigeria. His deaf daughter is the real reason Niyi settled in the United States. She could not go to school in Nigeria so they found a school in the U.S. for her. They moved with her so as to be closer to her.As well as this he has been used in many schools as an example of a poet.
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Chidera Okolie Chidera Nneoma Okolie (born 27 March 1993) is a Nigerian writer who gained national attention when her debut novel "When Silence Becomes Too Loud" was endorsed in 2015 by then President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan.
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Lyrics Alley Lyrics Alley is a 2010 novel by Sudanese author Leila Aboulela. The book is a fictionalised account of the life of Sudanese poet Hassan Awad Aboulela.
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Kabubi Herman Kabubi Herman is a Ugandan author and poet. He uses the stage name "Slim Emcee ". He is poetry teacher, as well as a performance poet. He took part in the spoken word project Kampala Uganda, in 2013.
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Helon Habila Helon Habila Ngalabak (born November 1967) is a Nigerian novelist and poet, whose writing has won many prizes, including the Caine Prize in 2001. He worked as a lecturer and journalist in Nigeria before moving in 2002 to England, where he was a Chevening Scholar at the University of East Anglia, and he now teaches creative writing at George Mason University, Washington, D.C.
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Akinwunmi Isola Professor Akinwunmi Isola (b. Ibadan) is a Nigerian playwright, actor, dramatist, culture activist and scholar. He is known for his writing in, and his work in promoting, the Yoruba language.
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Eldred D. Jones Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones (born 6 January 1925) is a Sierra Leonean academic and literary critic. Jones is known for his book "Othello's Countrymen: A Study of Africa in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama". He is a former principal of Fourah Bay College.
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One Man, One Matchet One Man, One Matchet is Nigeriann author T. M. Aluko, published in 1964 as the 11th book in the Heinemann African Writers Series. The novel tells the story of a community in Western Nigeria during the end of the colonial period and beginning of independence. Set in a small community where the majority of the inhabitants are dependent on the revenue from their cocoa crops, the story looks at the role of the semi-literate Benjamin Benjamin in the small community.
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İskender Pala İskender Pala (born 1958, in Turkey) is a Turkish Divan (Ottoman) Poetry Professor and author of best seller novels. He also writes a column in the Turkish daily newspaper "Zaman".
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Timothy Ogene Timothy Ogene (born March 3, 1984) is a Nigerian poet and novelist. He is the author of "Descent & Other Poems" (Deerbrook Editions, 2016) and "The Day Ends Like Any Day" (Holland House, 2017). Of his poetry, Felicity Plunkett writes:
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Mbella Sonne Dipoko Mbella Sonne Dipoko (1936 in Douala – December 5, 2009 in Tiko) was a novelist, poet and painter from Cameroon. He is widely considered to be one of the foremost writers of Anglophone Cameroonian literature.
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Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Novel Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award is given each year by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi (Kerala Literary Academy), to Malayalam writers for their outstanding books of literary merit. The awards are given in various categories including Poetry, Novel, Story, Drama, Literary criticism, Biography - autobiography, Travelogue, Humour, Translation, Children's literature etc. The list of writers who have won the award for Novel is given below.
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Athol Fugard Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard OIS (born 11 June 1932) is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English. He is best known for his political plays opposing the system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy Award-winning film of his novel "Tsotsi", directed by Gavin Hood. Fugard is an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. For the academic year 2000–2001, he was the IU Class of 1963 Wells Scholar Professor at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana. He is the recipient of many awards, honours, and honorary degrees, including the 2005 Order of Ikhamanga in Silver "for his excellent contribution and achievements in the theatre" from the government of South Africa. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Sirah Baldé Sirah Baldé de Labé was a Guinean novelist and teacher. She studied to be a teacher in Rufisque, Senegal and became a pioneer for being the first woman to teach French in the former Fula Imamate of Futa Jallon during the French occupation. She is best known for her 1985 novel "From One Futa Jalon to the Other".
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Toyin Adewale-Gabriel Toyin Adewale-Gabriel (born 1969) is a Nigerian writer. She writes poetry and has worked as a literary critic for "The Guardian", "Post Express" and "The Daily Time"s. Adewale-Gabriel writes in both English and in German.
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Michael Echeruo Michael Joseph Chukwudalu Echeruo (born March 14, 1937) is a Nigerian academic, professor and literary critic from Umunumo, Ehime-Mbano LGA, Imo State. He was educated at the University College, Ibadan (now the University of Ibadan) from 1955 to 1960 and was contemporaries with a few notable writers and poets from the college, such as Christopher Okigbo. He earned his Master's and Ph D degrees from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in 1963 and 1965 respectively. One of the most versatile of African critics, he has published in English Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, in the modern English novel. Echeruo was primarily notable as a critic of western writers on Africa, as he viewed himself and his contemporaries as writers fighting for an African viewpoint instead of a western viewpoint on the continent. He is best known in poetry for his collection of poems, "Mortality" (1968); in cultural history for his pioneering study of "Victorian Lagos" and in lexicography for his "Dictionary of the Igbo Language" (Yale 1998). He is currently William Safire Professor of Modern Letters in the English Department of Syracuse University, a university in Syracuse, New York, United States. He serves currently as a member of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) Committee of the "New variourum Shakespeare".
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Nick Twinamatsiko Nick Twinamatsiko is a Ugandan writer and civil engineer. He is the author of novels, "Chwezi Code", "Jesse's Jewel; a Parable of the Lost Love", and Mugu : the Chwezi guru, and a collection of poems, "Till the Promised Land & Other Poems".