Writers
- Chris Abani
- Chinua Achebe Man Booker prize winner 2007 with citation by Nadine Gordimer as 'Father of Modern African Literature'
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Orange Band prize winner 2007
- Elechi Amadi
- Cyprian Ekwensi
- Daniel O. Fagunwa
- Dan Fulani
- Abubakar Imam
- Uzodinma Iweala
- Okey Ndibe
- Gabriel Okara
- Ben Okri (born 1959), poet and novelist, Booker Prize winner 1995
- Ola Rotimi
- Ken Saro-Wiwa
- Wole Soyinka (born 1934), poet, playwright and novelists, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1986
- Amos Tutuola (1920–1997)
- Abdulkareem Baba Aminu
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