21st-century women writers

Canadian writer and hyperpolyglot (born 1978)

Sudanese writer and playwright

Franco-Rwandan writer

Arabic scholar and writer

graphic novelist

Senegalese writer

Motswana politician, Lawyer and Activist

Mozambican writer

Ivorian and French writer and painter

Mauritian writer

Bhutanese writer

Queenmother of Bhutan, author

Governor-General of the Bahamas

Sudanese doctor and author

Angolan writer and poet

Malian politician

Chadian writer and diplomat

Cape Verdean poet, human rights activist, government minister and politician

Ivorian writer

São Tomé and Príncipe poet

poet from the Marshall Islands (born 1989)

Rwandan writer, nurse, and survivor of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.

Malagasy writer

author and human rights activist

Equatorial Guinean politician

Malian historian

Swazi writer

Mauritian writer

Beninese writer and Benin's General Secretary for UNESCO

São Tomé and Príncipe poet, writer and narrator

Uzbek poet

politician in Guinea-Bissau

Chadian writer and artist

Guinean poet, novelist and playwright

Angolan writer, journalist and poet

Belarusian poet and translator (born 1982)

Maldivian Dhivehi-language poet, author

Cypriot politician

Motswana writer

Andorran author, writer and poet

Laotian writer

Kosovar political figure

Sudanese-born journalist and author

Djiboutian novelist

Senegalese writer

Cape Verdean writer (1927-2009)

Uzbek playwright

Turkish Cypriot journalist, writer, activist

Indian-American sociologist

Belarusian poet

writer and psychologist

Seychellois poet

Italian Buddhist nun

Rwandan poet and activist

Beninese poet, translator and literary scholar

Gambian writer

Cape Verdean writer

Belarusian actress and film director

French-Beninese entrepreneur

Congolese politician