Famous Authors and their Works

Chinua Achebe

 He is one of the most praised and recognised writer. He’s one of the writers that
wrote extraordinary on the 20th century. His famous novel was Things Fall Apart
(1958). Achebe noted also a literacy critic. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) is
one of his known passionate critique. This accuses the popular novel of rampant
racism through its bothering African continent and its people.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who was born in Nigeria in 1977, was part of a new
generation of African writers taking the literary world by storm. Her works are
primarily character-driven, interweaving the background of her native Nigeria, social
and political events into the narrative. Adichie’s novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003) is a
bildungsroman, depicting the life experience of Kambili, and her family during a
military cup. Whereas her latest work which is, Americanah (2013) is an insighful
portayal of Nigerian immigrant life and race relations in America and the western
world. Her works have been met with overwhelming praise, and have been
nominated for and won numerous awards. This includes the Orange Prize and the
Booker Prize.
Ayi Kwei Armah

 Ayi Kwei Armah's novels are recognized for portraying political destruction and social
frustration in Armah's native Ghana from the perspective of the person.
His work was heavily influenced by French existential philosophers like Jean Paul
Sartre and Albert Camus and as a result, it contains themes of despair,
disillusionment, and irrationality. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), his
most famous piece, is about an anonymous protagonist who tries to understan
himself and his nation in the aftermath of independence.
Ben Okri

 His young experience greatly informed his future writing: his first, highly acclaimed
novels Flowers and Shadows (1980) and The Landscapes Within (1981) were
reflections on the devastation of the Nigerian civil war which Okri himself observed
firsthand.
Alain Mabanckou

 His novels are strikingly character-focused, often featuring ensemble casts of figures,
such as his book Broken Glass, which focuses on a former Congolese teacher and his
 interactions with the locals in the bar he frequents, or his novel Black Bazar, which
details the experiences of various African immigrants in an Afro-Cuban bar in Paris.
Nadine Gordimer
 Despite winning a Nobel Prize in Literature for her prodigious skills in portraying a
society interwoven with racial tensions, Gordimer’s most famous and controversial
works were banned from South Africa for daring to speak out against the oppressive
governmental structures of the time.