l have read most of them.

Great list... Michael Okara is missing tho...

Anybody that introduce tribalism into this tread may sango amadioha strike that person. What I saw are beautiful minds that breed others. They are Nigearians who fight for her through the pen

I love me some Buchi Emecheta.

OP...hope you know WRITING spans across genres: Prose, Drama & Poetry?

If so, Wole Soyinka easily tops them all.

Others are great prosaists from what I can infer.

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The list is very wrong what of flora nwakpa,fagunwa,ola rotimi? please .....restructure the list and for the guy saying that chinua achebe was fraud I will say please read his poetry and other works of art have you read no longer at ease....arrow of God ....Please chinua is the greatest followed by wole. ....Please do something about this list it's wrong

Ola Rotimi
Zulu Sofola
Amos Tutuola
Cyprian Ekwensi
Elechi Amadi

These are, at least five names that should make the list, I think.

AmakaDNB:
Daniel Nkado too jor.

cc danwrites, dnbcrew

Crazy girl

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

What of Amos Tutuola, Elechi Amadi, Zynab Alkali, Cyprian Ekwesi, D.F Fagunwa among others??

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

I disagree

I think Wole Soyinka should have come first followed by chinua Achebe

BTW why was Ola Rotimi omitted

I think I need to read more

No Hausa man / woman abi dem no dey write book?

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

Exactly. A big fluke. Wole Soyinka ought to top that list. Cyprian Ekwensi was a finer writer than Achebe in my opinion. Even TM Aluko was better.

Like as always Chinua Achebe will continue to lead the pack as number ONE in Africa..

Achebe, Emecheta, Ekwensi and Chimamanda are all from the Light of the Nation- Anambra

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

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My dear, how many have you written as a fluke?

Antibiotics was discovered by mistake by Fleming.
X-ray was discovered by coincidence by Roentgen.

My late professor Sir James Black (Nobel Prize 1988) wasn't necessarily looking for beta-blocker (to treat heart failure, hypertension and thyroid disease) when he discovered it.
Many things were discovered by mistake or co-incidence.

Achebe deliberately sat down to write a book which was a success and here you're saying it was a fluke.

I disagree with you completely on some of your choices.
Where is Niyi Osundare?
Where is Odia Ofeimum?
Where is Ola Rotimi?

Rick9:
I think I need to read more

you read my mind...

Why are you guys bitter that Achebe tops the list? He is the rightful number ONE in Africa..

The same TFA that has been translated into over 70 languages. The first of its kind in Africa..

hifaif:


Exactly. A big fluke. Wole Soyinka ought to top that list. Cyprian Ekwensi was a finer writer than Achebe in my opinion. Even TM Aluko was better.

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.

Not even one of these in the parents respected book library - we'll call this Nigerias pop fiction.

Now when we are acknowledging the likes of Ken Saro, Olagoke, Ishola, Ama then we can talk of Nigerias great writers!!

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

bad belle x a disease.

Wot of chukwuemeka ike 'the bottle leopard '

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

stupendous stupidity

kennygee:
Can't believe Ola Rotimi's name is not there.

His name should be number 2 on that list.

Zulu Sofoola's name is not there too.

don't mind the idiot that compiled the list Ola rotimi should have been number one on the list.Even cyprian Ezekwensi. Wrote more book than any of them.

sholay2011:
I love me some Buchi Emecheta.

OP...hope you know WRITING spans across genres: Prose, Drama & Poetry?

If so, Wole Soyinka easily tops them all.

Others are great prosaists from what I can infer.

l also love Buchi Emecheta, maybe because her surname is almost like mine l have read her works such as The joys of motherhood, The bride price, Kehinde etc. Also love me some Flora Nwakpa.

Schematics:
Why are you guys bitter that Achebe tops the list? He is the rightful number ONE in Africa..

The same TFA that has been translated into over 70 languages. The first of its kind in Africa..

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.

lonngmann:

you read my mind...

These are lovely books that must be read

Elechi Amadi and Cyprian Ekwensi missing and you call it greatest of all time? Wake up! You should rather say some of the greatest. Also, you only mentioned those that wrote in English and omitted our native languages writers.

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

You need love man, I'm sure ur brain is having a hard tym comprehending da stu.pid statement ur hand jst wrote. Have a nice day.

Cyprian Ekwensi