Orikinla:


[size=28pt]Your fada is more Ode than you.
When Chimamanda wins the Man Booker Prize, then you can open your dirty mouth.
You can never even come close to me in the literary world, cinema and even blogging.
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Orikinla:
[size=28pt]OP, JP Clark should replace Elechi Amadi.

John Pepper Clark, pseudonym J.P. Clark-Bekederemo (born April 6, 1935, Kiagbodo, Nigeria) the most lyrical of the Nigerian poets, whose poetry celebrates the physical landscape of Africa. He was also a journalist, playwright, and scholar-critic who conducted research into traditional Ijo myths and legends and wrote essays on African poetry.

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http://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Pepper-Clark

[size=28pt]John Munonye should be included.
http://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Munonye

Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo has not yet achieved any greatness be on this list.

Do your research very well.

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AyamConfidence:
I've read books from almost all those writers before phone and Nairaland came into my life and took away my reading culture... I need to go back to the former times...I've read books by Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Adichie, Flora Nwapa, Ola Rotimi, Cyprian Ekwensi, and Buchi Emecheta .......those books made me more knowledgeable.... God bless those great people....I will build a library for my kids which must contain great works from these writers


(does anybody beat my record?? I don't think so)

naijacampu:


Are you kidding me? Your are the funniest man alive.
So the 'award' that was given by an online magazine should be compared with numerous award Chimamanda have been receiving for over 14 years now? Please check the array of Chimamanda awards here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie#Awards_and_nominations
Strange, this is even my first time of hearing about that your Helen Oyeyemi ooor whatever.

okitejoseph:
Quota System has truly damaged the mind of an average Nigerian, Everything must and should be shared equally. Someone was even listing out Names of some Hausa writers who probably wrote there books with Hausa and where only read in the Hausa community, I'll fault the OP in some of the names on his List of Nigerian Greatest writers, but then 70% of the names deserve their position, At JP Clark should be on the list............ While some people out of tribal bigotry said Prof. Wole Soyinka should be ahead Prof Chinua Achebe because he has the Noble prize award, I mean that's their only excuse "Noble prize". From the topic the OP was referring to the "10 Greatest Literary Writers In Nigeria History", the emphasis is on "Greatest Literary Writers" and not the biggest award, if it were to be the biggest award, I will give it to Wole Soyinka any day but here is for the "Greatest Literary Writers" and the OP rightly place the Father of modern African writing as the number one. Common guys this tribal sh*t is becoming too much to bear.......

crotonite:
Mostly igbos, maka y?

Toroze:
You people haf come again please leave Chimanmanda for me biko, If you had said Ben Okri I agree with you but Helen Oyeyemi come on bruv and as to Wole being the King of them all you seem to forget a Chinua Achebe is also on that list...

Toroze:
Bruv Chimanmanda is good better than Helen in my opinion but that doesn't take anything from Helen she is also as good as it gets

AyamConfidence:
I've read books from almost all those writers before phone and Nairaland came into my life and took away my reading culture... I need to go back to the former times...I've read books by Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Adichie, Flora Nwapa, Ola Rotimi, Cyprian Ekwensi, and Buchi Emecheta .......those books made me more knowledgeable.... God bless those great people....I will build a library for my kids which must contain great works from these writers


(does anybody beat my record?? I don't think so)

ziddy:


You dont have any business talking about literature if you can't even spell 'Nobel Prize'

OP is an Igbo supremacist sh!tbird

1. D.O Fagunwa
2. Wole Soyinka
3. Chinua Achebe
4. Elechi Amadi
5. Flora Nwapa
6. Buchi Emecheta
7. Chimamanda Adichie
8. Helen Oyeyemi
9. Chika Unigwe
10. Remi Raji

naijacampu:

Maybe she's good, what I said is that I haven't heard or read any of her novels and so are many Nigerians. I really don't understand the reason he said she's better than Chimamanda, must we be traibalistic in everything?

organicfoods:
But what makes writers great? Awards acquired for their works is what makes them great and not insinuations and thought. I love Things fall apart and believe is one of the greatest novel to come out of Africa. For certain reason the author never made it at the Nobel prize.

Probably he never met the criteria to be awarded a Nobel prize which left a great dent on his resume.

The OP has no background history worth of note to rate any Author to warrant a front page. Like religion MOD should be sensitive to pushing gossips to front burner least they misinform future generations that will rely on the Internet for research. Cyprian Ekwensi and JP Clark are among the top five writers in Africa...where are their names in Nigeria's so called 10

DropShot:

You could have 9 persons not even measuring up to 1 person. Show me their Nobel Peace Prize, then I take you serious.

AyamConfidence:
I've read books from almost all those writers before phone and Nairaland came into my life and took away my reading culture... I need to go back to the former times...I've read books by Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Adichie, Flora Nwapa, Ola Rotimi, Cyprian Ekwensi, and Buchi Emecheta .......those books made me more knowledgeable.... God bless those great people....I will build a library for my kids which must contain great works from these writers


(does anybody beat my record?? I don't think so)

nedufantasy:
3. CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu on the 15th of September 1977 but hails from Abba in Njikoka local Government Anambra state. She has been called the most prominent” of a procession of critically acclaimed young Anglophone authors thatg is succedding in attracting a new generation of readers to African Literature.
Adichie divides her time between Nigeria where she teaches writing workshops and the United States. Chimamanda is a core feminist, she said “I think of myself as a storyteller, but I would not mind at all if someone were to think of me as a feminist writer, I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that world must somehow be part of my work”.
Chimamanda’s speech for TEDxEuston which she titled “we should all be feminist” was sampled on 2013 before Grammy nominated song **Flawless** which attracted world attention to her .
Her award includes BBC short story competition prize 2002, Commonwealth writers prize 2005, Orange prize for fiction 2007, International Nino prize 2009 etc.
Her published novels are Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), Americanah (2013and We should all be feminist (2014).

   2. WOLE SOYINKA (Prof)
Akinwande OLuwale Babatundde Soyinka is an author, poet, playwright and a human right activist. Born on 13th July 1934. Soyinka has been a strong critic of Nigeria successive governments, especially the country’s many military dictators, as well as other political hittlers in Africa like Mugabe of Zimbabwe.
        During the regime of General Sani Abacha, Soyinka escaped from Nigeria and went and lived in the United States. In 1986 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature making him the first African to be honored in that category. 
He has written many books which includes The Swamp Dwellers (1958), A Quality of Violence (1959), The Lion and the Jewel (1959) and Many others, among his notable awards are Nobel prize for literature 1986, Agip prize for literature 1986, international Humanist Award 2014 and too many others not mentioned here.

1.  CHINUA ACHEBE
Born on the 16th of November 1930 in Ogidi Anambra state, Albert Chinualumogu Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor and critic. He was also considered by many to be one of the most original literary artists writing in English during his lifetime. He is best known for his novel Things Fall Apart (1958).
Achebe became learned in English, though he grew up in a village full of Igbo language and traditions and colonial legacy.
Things fall apart was his first novel and remains his best known works. It has been translated into at least forty five languages and sold eight million copies world wide. Other novels of his include No Longer At Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964), and A man of the people (1966).
 His final published work was the literacy autobiography There was a Country a personal account of Biafra. Achebe has been called “the father of modern African writing and many books and essays have been written about his work”.
Before his death he has received over 30 honourary degrees from universities in England, Scotland, Canada, South Africa, Nigeria and the United states.
Among his notable Awards are Peace of the German book trade, Man Booker prize 2007, an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1982, he twice refused the Nigerian honour Commander of the Federal Republic in 2004 and 2011 and slighting bad governance in the country and in his home state Anambra. He died on the 21 of March 2013 in Boston, United states at the age of 82.  

source: http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/05/10-greatest-literary-writers-in-nigeria.html?m=1

Ans55:
Did he say Ola Rotimi was born in Delta state? I thought he was from Ogun state. But come to think of it, our northern brothers are not represented here, does it mean they don't have notable writers?

okitejoseph:


You can as well make your own list on a new thread, but you guys eh!!! anything to put Yoruba ahead of others is acceptable, @D.O Fagunwa was just a yoruba writer, Imagine if the OP had placed "Pita Nwana" as number1 because he wrote the first Igbo literature, you lots would have claimed his works are not known........... SMH for you!

okitejoseph:


Like I said JP Clark should be on the list, I can't really say how he or she came up with that list, maybe he must have gone through their works and maybe influenced by what he got, I've read more of Cyprian Ekwensi's work, so if I'm asked to make my list Cyprian Ekwensi will come first while Achebe comes second, OP should have said His list of Greatest Nigerian writer........

AyamConfidence:
I've read books from almost all those writers before phone and Nairaland came into my life and took away my reading culture... I need to go back to the former times...I've read books by Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Adichie, Flora Nwapa, Ola Rotimi, Cyprian Ekwensi, and Buchi Emecheta .......those books made me more knowledgeable.... God bless those great people....I will build a library for my kids which must contain great works from these writers


(does anybody beat my record?? I don't think so)

haywire07:


My broda, I didn't know u noticed it too o.
Shame sef com dey catch me .
No northerner, just 2 westerners !!

I gat to make the west proud o. Soyinka am coming!!!!

okitejoseph:


You can as well make your own list on a new thread, but you guys eh!!! anything to put Yoruba ahead of others is acceptable, @D.O Fagunwa was just a yoruba writer, Imagine if the OP had placed "Pita Nwana" as number1 because he wrote the first Igbo literature, you lots would have claimed his works are not known........... SMH for you!

EdibleCatering:
ossokay...

fabre4:



Nobel prize is just an award every writer mustn't be presented with the award to be recognized as the best take a look at times most influential people in the world , richest people in the world, greats in every field of life how many of them have the award even uncle Shakespeare never got it that is to tell u that the award is limited to time and chance

ziddy:


It's not about Yoruba. D.O Fagunwa is the greatest writer Nigeria has ever seen & you can always read the translation. Who the hell is Pita Nwana?

Shym3xx:


I don't really want to get into this cos folks will most likely turn to a tribal dyck waving contest. And I'm not really familiar with Nigerian literature - apart from the popular ones. However, I'd say Ben Okri's "Famished Road" is one of the greatest books written by an African writer in terms of literary skills, idioms, story telling, and soul that come with African literature. He won the Man Booker Prize years ago - an award Chimanmanda is yet to get close to.

Also, in terms of literary gift...Helen Oyeyemi is much more gifted than Chimanmanda. I believe Chimanmanda just got a huge break with the help of Achebe and cos "half of a yellow sun" was based on a bloody civil war. And the world generally gravitate towards things like that. That's also the only decent book she has written thus far - the rest are trash and they lack soul. She's also more into commercialised crap than the art.

My opinion, people can twist it how they want but Nigeria definitely has a huge prospect to take on the literary world in Helen Oyeyemi. She's the most promising/gifted young African writer out there.

naijacampu:

It's Anambrarians, don't be sure of what you don't know.

sixtus3606:

Warris did one saying??