uzolexis:
All my posts 2day is dedicated to huntila...happy birthday dear, dont worry we'll find that babe 4 u

this thread and all d reasonable comments r nostalgic,i feel like reading all those books again

I dey wait

This list lacks credibility because the No Author in Nigeria did not even make the list...

Its no other person than CYPRIAN EKWENSI.
That man is the bomb.. I have read most of the authors being discussed here but this man takes No 1 position.

Trouble in Form 6.
Juju Rock.
The Passport of Mallam Illia.
The Boy Slave.
The Drummer Boy.

Forget all the hype about litrature books used compulsrily in school.
Cyprian book were suspensful, imaginative and insanely good. He is 1 helluva writer. Chai Naija no get authors again.
Good old days

Built2last:


why people mouth bad like this...before i accuse someone of being over rated...i google the persons name and google my name...if the difference is clear...i respect such people. so google the names of everyone in your village plus your name and google the names listed above...

why the hate? and we dont even know you exist

That was the bomb bro!

I only picked,1,2,5,10.


5 is my mum's best author

kennygee:


Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

Thanks
Kennygee

Built2last:


why people mouth bad like this...before i accuse someone of being over rated...i google the persons name and google my name...if the difference is clear...i respect such people. so google the names of everyone in your village plus your name and google the names listed above...

why the hate? and we dont even know you exist

love anti hills of Savannah by - Chinua Achebe.
Won't forget that novel in a hurry.

Rick9:
Pls guys there is a book I am searching for I read it when I was very young, I kinda like the book but now that am older I can't remember anything that happened in the book I can only remember some few things.

The two Main characters was a man and a woman its like they got married
The man's name was Jude and the woman's name was Morenike
That's all I know plz if u have read dis book pls I want to know de name

help oh

searching4love:


CHINUA ACHEBE IS OVERRATED AND SHOULDN'T BE ON THAT LIST. THE ONLY FAMOUS BOOK HE WROTE WAS "things fall apart" AND IT WAS A FLUKE COS HE NEVER REPEATED SUCH. HE IS AN AVERAGE WRITER WHO DOESN'T DESERVE SUCH RECOGNITION

why do people become so short sighted to be noticed, get a job

I seriously need to buy some of these old novels for my library. They are evergreen as far as I'm concerned.
Things fall apart
Arrow of God
The concubine
The gods are not to blame
Passport of mallam iliya
Joys of motherhood e.t.c

I really don't care about the authors, I'm more interested in the content. Achebe's use of words however makes him stand out for me.

hifaif:


You must be a joker to think Achebe tops in Africa. A novelist who only wrote 5 novels and couldn't even replicate his masterpiece. Even that Things Fall Apart is overrated. He was lucky to have published the book at the time he did. If you have read the Famished Road or Sello Duiker's Hidden Star, then you would know that TFA is overrated.

Hmmm...Overrated?
Over 10 millions copies sold, Translated into over 50 international languages, and that Legend has more than 30 international honorary doctorate degrees.
Well, the whole wide world obviously isn't as sentimental or myopic as you are.
Besides, he wrote TFA at the age of 27, how old are you and what are your achievements in life?

Buonsenso:
1. Achebe: for bringing the world attention through things fall apart.he wrote it when he was 27 years.
Sit down and digest that.27 years old

2. Soyinka; what has not been said about the great man.
From poetry to plays and then novels, he has few rivals in the world presently. His crowning moment, the Nobel prize still unequalled By another black African writer since 87

3. Adichie; Achebe literary daughter. The lady sure can write.

4. Ben okri; has there been a better magic realism from.Africa since Famished road? Don't think so.

5. Teju Cole; highly cerebral. Soyinkaesque in his use of the devices of literature.

6. Sefi Atta: distilled fiction writing, very witty.
I would include Okey Ndibe among them, his latest novel, was a tour de force. Foreign God inc.
His essays are also very well written.

Not read the rest OP but special mentions to
Helon Habila for winning the Caine prize. Have not read his works

Nigeria is blessed with writing and am not talking about the jargons of Patrick Obaighbon.

In the north, I enjoy the essays of Gimba Kakanda. The brother is good.

Nothing makes a day like good fiction.

Another writer to look out for is Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani. Authored "i do not come to you by chance". Hilarious, wicked with some twist! her style good. i recommend

Zonacom:
I seriously need to buy some of these old novels for my library. They are evergreen as far as I'm concerned.
Things fall apart
Arrow of God
The concubine
The gods are not to blame
Passport of mallam iliya
Joys of motherhood e.t.c

I really don't care about the authors, I'm more interested in the content. Achebe's use of words however makes him stand out for me.

"You need to". okay. please make the sentence "i have" asap.

ElZionista:

Hmmm...Overrated?
Over 10 millions copies sold, Translated into over 50 international languages, and that Legend has more than 30 international honorary doctorate degrees.
Well, the whole wide world obviously isn't as sentimental or myopic as you are.
Besides, he wrote TFA at the age of 27, how old are you and what are your achievements in life?

The world fell for it at the time it came. For one thing, it was a brave novel and a tragedy. The first of its kind in Africa. In my post, I said he was lucky to have published it at the time he did.

And for your information, it was easier to get published in those days than now so stop all this childish attitude of asking for the achievements of those who say their minds about certain authors. We can't all be lucky.

I have read the novel (Things Fall Apart) a couple of times and there was nothing extraordinary about it. I studied it in my first year at college. A lot of my European friends barely read it to the end. They had heard so much about it but after reading it, they were disappointed. Nothing special.

Rossikk:


Ben Okri is very much alive.

My bad, meant to say late Christopher Okigbo. Thanks for pointing it out.

Built2last:


why people mouth bad like this...before i accuse someone of being over rated...i google the persons name and google my name...if the difference is clear...i respect such people. so google the names of everyone in your village plus your name and google the names listed above...

why the hate? and we dont even know you exist

what a bombshell

searching4love:


CHINUA ACHEBE IS OVERRATED AND SHOULDN'T BE ON THAT LIST. THE ONLY FAMOUS BOOK HE WROTE WAS "things fall apart" AND IT WAS A FLUKE COS HE NEVER REPEATED SUCH. HE IS AN AVERAGE WRITER WHO DOESN'T DESERVE SUCH RECOGNITION

. Your father!!! U name no dey am, ur papa no dey am, ur grandfather name no dey am, ur ancestors name no dey am... bastard son of a thousand fathers!!!

Chimamanda...i love her so much

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the list is 100% subjective.

op, why nah?

Schematics:
Op is the not the source of this list, it was publish by a research firm.

highly doubtful.

pak:



It is commendable that a nairalander should come up with such a list. Thumbs up for that..........

But I feel like challenging you to an open air boxing duel for not including AMOS TUTUOLA and D.O. FAGUNRO.
If you had said top ten contemporary writers, well maybe but of all times ??

Fagunwa.

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Pls guys there is a book I am searching for I read it when I was very young, I kinda like the book but now that am older I can't remember anything that happened in the book I can only remember some few things.

The two Main characters was a man and a woman its like they got married
The man's name was Jude and the woman's name was Morenike
That's all I know plz if u have read dis book pls I want to know de name

Yep. Over 120 million readers in 90 languages worldwide are wrong, just you is right. It does sound logical.

CHINUA ACHEBE IS OVERRATED AND SHOULDN'T BE ON THAT LIST. THE ONLY FAMOUS BOOK HE WROTE WAS "things fall apart" AND IT WAS A FLUKE COS HE NEVER REPEATED SUCH. HE IS AN AVERAGE WRITER WHO DOESN'T DESERVE SUCH RECOGNITION

Pls guys there is a book I am searching for I read it when I was very young, I kinda like the book but now that am older I can't remember anything that happened in the book I can only remember some few things.

The two Main characters were a man and a woman its like they got married
The man's name was Jude and the woman's name was Morenike
That's all I know plz if u have read dis book pls I want to know de name

I just can't remember what happened in the novel.

There's one novel I am searching for, I read it when I was very young I can't remember the title of the novel, the only thing I could remember was that there was a woman and a man, who got married

the man's name was Jude and the woman's name was Morenike, pls anyone that has read this book should tell me the title. thanks

If Cyprian Ekwensi is left out then you know not what you're posting. He should be among the first three if not first.