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Chinua Achebe
Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic

Nnamdi Azikiwe
President of Nigeria

Olaudah Equiano
African abolitionist

Ken Saro-Wiwa
Nigerian activist

Edward Wilmot Blyden III
Sierra Leonean diplomat

Uthman Dan Fodio
Founder of the Sokoto Caliphate

Wole Soyinka
Nigerian writer

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian writer

Rowland Ola Abíọ́dún
Nigerian-American author and professor

Obiwu
Nigerian-American writer and professor

Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli
NIgerian social entrepreneur

Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies

Chet Anekwe
Director and actor

Biyi Bandele
Nigerian writer

Dadasare Abdullahi
Nigerian writer, nurse, teacher and journalist of Fulani descent

Ola Rotimi
Nigerian writer

Victor Ehikhamenor
Nigerian visual artist, writer, and photographer

A. Igoni Barrett
Nigerian writer

Buchi Emecheta
Novelist

Ajayi Crowther
Nigerian Yoruba linguist and the first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria

Emeka Nwabueze
Nigerian film director and playwright

Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
Writer and enslaved man

Emeka Enejere
Nigerian academic and political scientist

Robert Anthony Welch
Irish screenwriter

Ukamaka Olisakwe
Nigerian writer

Alhaji Garba Gashuwa
Nigerian poet

Ayo Oritsejafor
Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor is the founder of Word of Life Bible Church, a Church he began in November 1987

Gbemisola Adeoti
Nigerian academic and poet

Hubert Ogunde
Nigerian actor and playwright

Olajumoke Olufunmilola Adenowo
Nigerian architect and author

Chinwe Azubuike
Nigerian poet

Catherine Obianuju Acholonu
Nigerian writer

Folake Onayemi
Nigerian classics professor

Lola Akinmade Åkerström
Nigerian photographer and travel writer

Lekan Balogun
Nigerian writer

Olakunbi Olasope
Nigerian classicist

Cyril Nri
Actor, writer and film director

Lindsay Barrett
Jamaican writer

Triumph Grandeur
Nigerian record producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music director, creative writer and trainer

Ojo Taiye
Nigerian writer of poetry