African And African Diaspora Writers 1-24
18 entries in the African And African Diaspora Writers compendium.
African And African Diaspora Writers 1-24 — Era Chart
Mariama BâSenegalese author and feminist who wrote *So Long a Letter*, winner of the first Noma AwarMarlon James (novelist)Jamaican novelist and Man Booker Prize winner.Maryse CondéFrench novelist, critic, playwright, and academic from Guadeloupe.Mohamed ChoukriMoroccan author of the censored autobiography *For Bread Alone*.Muhammed Said AbdullaTanzanian Swahili novelist and pioneer of popular literature.Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oKenyan author and advocate for African-language literature.Nuruddin FarahSomali novelist and perennial nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.Olaudah EquianoEnslaved African who wrote an autobiography recounting his capture and enslavement.Paulette NardalMartinican writer, journalist, and pioneer of Négritude and Pan-Africanism.Peter AbrahamsSouth African-born novelist and journalist, settled in Jamaica.Ralph EllisonAmerican writer, author of the 1967 short story 'Flying Home'.Roxane GayAmerican writer, professor, editor, and social commentator.Kofi AwoonorWest African poet who attended the 1962 Makerere African Writers Conference.Lenrie PetersGambian surgeon, poet, novelist, and educationist.Keorapetse KgositsileSouth African poet laureate who bridged African and African-American verse.Jack MapanjeMalawian poet imprisoned without charge or trial.Luís GamaSelf-taught lawyer and abolitionist who won his own freedom.Margaret WalkerAmerican poet and writer of the Chicago Black Renaissance.
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