Category
page 120th-century Nigerian writers

Ken Saro-Wiwa
Nigerian social rights activist (1941–1995)
Grace Oladunni Taylor
Nigerian biochemist
Molara Ogundipe
Nigerian writer
Herbert Macaulay
Nigerian politician (1864-1946)
Amina Mama
Nigerian-British writer, feminist and academic
Kofoworola Ademola
Yoruba Nigerian educationalist and first African woman to graduate from the University of Oxford
Niyi Osundare
Nigerian writer
Tess Osonye Onwueme
Nigerian writer

Elizabeth Isichei
New Zealand / Nigerian academic and historian
Abubakar Imam
Nigerian writer (1911–1981)
Lateef Jakande
Nigerian politician
Adebayo Faleti
Nigerian actor (1930–2017)
Charry Ada Onwu
Nigerian writer
Femi Osofisan
Nigerian writer
Margaret Amosu
British-Nigerian librarian

Hubert Ogunde
Nigerian actor and playwright
Jacob Odulate
Nigerian inventor
Rosina Umelo
Nigerian writer
Akinwunmi Isola
Nigerian playwright and actor (1939–2018)
Festus Iyayi
Nigerian writer (1947–2013)
Dele Giwa
Nigerian journalist, editor and founder of Newswatch magazine
Sankie Maimo
Cameroonian writer
Kayode Soyinka
Nigerian journalist, publisher and author
Felicia Adeyoyin
Nigerian professor and author of the National Pledge

Duro Ladipo
Nigerian playwright (1926–1978)
Rosemary Uwemedimo
Nigerian writer

Maimuna Waziri
Nigerian educator
Bandele Omoniyi
Nigerian nationalist