Category: Literature – General

Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library

Environment – Others, History – General, Literature – General, NGOs, Property, Publishing, Social – Relaxation, Tourism

Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library; Conceived in 1988, the idea to set up the library remained just an idea until 10 years later when the man in whose honour the project is being… read more
Olanlokun Samuel

Education – Tertiary, Literature – Fiction, Literature – General, Literature – Others, People, Social – Psychology

Samuel Olajire Olanlokun; Children book author, novelist, folklorist, poet, who as a distinguished librarian and teacher attained the position of the president, West African Association of Library and Information Science. In 1991,… read more
The Ozidi Saga

Arts, Literature – Fiction, Literature – General, Literature – Others

The Ozidi Saga; Play by J.P. Clark, a revenge tragedy based on an Ijaw myth about treachery and vengeance. Ozidi being a festival play and plucked from mythology, brims with African performance… read more
Mabel Segun

Literature – Fiction, Literature – General, Literature – Others, People

Mabel Segun; Novelist, one of Nigeria’s first generation writers. Mabel Segun is the author of My Father’s Daughter, The First Corn, Olu and The Broken Statue, Youth Day Parade, The Twins and… read more
JP Clark

Literature – General, Literature – Others, People, Philosophy – African

John Pepper Clark; Nigerian folklorist, poet, essayist and playwright who draws on his graphic experience to empower the poetry, the songs and, indeed, the grandest engagements of his Ijaw people. He is… read more
Odia Ofeimun

Arts, Literature – General

Odia Ofeimun; Nigerian Poet, also essayist, social commentator, and administrator in editorial board of TheNEWS magazine, Ofeimum is an accomplished man of letters and poetry is his prime choice. His astounding corpus… read more
Kofoworola Aina Moore

Lifestyle – Others, Literature – General

Ademola Kofoworola, educationist and children books author, known later in life as Lady Ademola, being wife of Adetokunbo Ademola, the first indigenous Chief Justice of Nigeria. Kofoworola was an early 20th Century… read more
Latunde Odeku

Literature – General, Medicine

Latunde Odeku, physician and poet,who was one of Nigeria’s most distinguished medical scholars, was born in 29 June 1927 in Awe, near Oyo. He schooled at Methodist Boys’ High School in Lagos… read more
Ajisafe Kayode Ajayi

History – General, Literature – General, Religion

Ajisafe Kayode Ajayi was an historian and poet born in 1875 as Emmanuel Olympus Moore. The patriotic zeal and cultural renaissance in him prompted the change of his name to a fully… read more
Mojola Agbebi

History – General, Journalism, Literature – General, Literature – Religious, Philosophy – African

Mojola Agbebi is the native name of the poet and advocate of Ethiopianism, who was born April 10, 1860 as David Brown Vincent in Ilesha. Mojola repudiated his European name in 1894,… read more