Yoruba writers

Nigerian writer (1920-1997)

British-American writer and photographer of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin

Nigerian-American author

American writer

Nigerian writer (1918-2010)

Nigerian author (1903–1963)

Yoruba Nigerian educationalist and first African woman to graduate from the University of Oxford

Nigerian novelist

David Adetayo Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, writer, broadcaster, and BAFTA winning film-maker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. Olusoga has presented historical documentaries on the BBC, has contributed to The Guardian and is the author of Black and British: A Forgotten History (2016).

author and religious minister

Nigerian actor (1930–2017)

Nigerian poet and writer

Irish television and radio presenter, writer and researcher

American judge

Nigerian writer

American writer and spiritualist

Performance storyteller, author children's book translator, lecturer, researcher

Nigerian poet

Sierra Leonean writer

Nigerian film director

Nigerian writer and playwright

British novelist

Nigerian musical artist

Nigerian writer, linguist, and teacher

Nigerian playwright and actor (1939–2018)

Yoruba poet

Nigerian writer and playwright (1943–2023)

Nigerian nationalist

Nigerian filmmaker, cinematographer and writer

Nigerian bishop

Nigerian sexual health and rights advocate

Nigerian writer and historian (1930–2008)

Nigerian-British writer and journalist