Chris Abani
Chinua Achebe
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Uwem Akpan
Short Stories: Say You are One of Them. Includes a brilliant narrative of the Biafran War.
Sefi Atta
Teju Cole
Helon Habila
Flora Nwapa
Efuru is great colonial-Nigerian feminist manuscript. It is Igbo in culture and the first book by a Nigerian woman ever published.
Chigozi Obioma
Ben Okri
Novel: The Famished Road (1991 Booker Prize Winner)
Helen Oyeyemi
Ola Rotimi
Play: Hopes of the Living Dead is set in Leper's Hospital during the leprosy crises of the 1930s. It is revolutionary work.
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Wole Soyinka
Play: Death and the King's Horsemen is this Nobel Prize-winning playwright's classic tale of tragic decisions in a traditional African culture.
Amos Tutola
Novel: The Palm-Wine Drinkard, published in 1952. This is the first African book to published in English.