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Encyclopedia > List of African writers

African Writers:


This is a list of literary figures from Africa, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars. // Etymology World map showing Africa (geographically) The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — land of the Afri (plural, or Afer singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, corresponding to modern-day... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Basic Characteristics There is some debate as to what constitutes childrens literature. ... An essayist is an author who writes compositions which can be about any particular subject. ... A scholar is either a student or someone who has achieved a mastery of some academic discipline. ...


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1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Abd al-Rahman Abnudi (b. ... Peter Abrahams (born March 3, 1919) is a South African novelist. ... Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe (born November 16, 1930) is a Nigerian writer. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born in 1977) is a Nigerian writer. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events WIKIPEDIA EATS VAGINA January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... José Eduardo Agualusa [Alves da Cunha], a native of Huambo (b. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Gamal al-Ghitani (b. ... Hayam Abbas Al-Homi is an Egyptian writer, specialising in childrens literature. ... Ama Ata Aidoo is a Ghanian author and playwright who was born Christina Ama Aidoo in Abeadzi Kyiakor in 1942. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Toluwalogo Ajayi (born 1946) is a Nigerian poet and writer of fiction. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Germano Almeida (born 1945) is a Cape Verde author and lawyer. ... Timothy Mofolorunso Aluko (born June 14, 1918) is a Nigerian writer. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Dr. Ifi Amadiume is a Nigerian writer. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Samir Amin is an Egyptian political author, born in 1931. ... Jean Amrouche (1906-1962) was a French-language Algerian poet. ... 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mário Coelho Pinto de Andrade (August 21, 1928 - August 26, 1990) was an Angolan poet and politician. ... María Nsué Angüe (born 1945) is a writer from Equatorial Guinea. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Kwame Anthony Appiah is a philosopher and novelist. ... Ayi Kwei Armah is a Ghanian writer. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Bediako Asare is an African journalist and author from Ghana. ... Meshack Asare (born 1945) is a popular African childrens author. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Abdoulaye Ascofaré (April 20, 1949 in Gao - ) is a Malian poet and filmmaker. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Kofi Awoonor (born George Awoonor-Williams in 1935) is a Ghanaian poet and author, whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization. ... 1935(MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ibrahima Aya is a Malian writer. ...

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Amadou Hampâté Bâ (January or February 1900 or 1901 in Bandiagara, Mali – May 15, 1991 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast) was a Malian writer and ethnologist. ... Mariama Ba (1929-1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, who wrote in French. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Shabbir Banoobhai (born October 23, 1949) is a South African poet. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mark Behr is a South African author. ... Tahar Ben Jelloun (born in Fez, 1944) is a Moroccan poet and writer. ... Sokhna Benga (born 1967) is novelist and poet. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Alexandre Biyidi Awala (June 30, 1932 - October 8, 2001), known as Mongo Beti, was a Cameroonian writer. ... The Republic of Cameroon is a unitary republic of central Africa. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Jacqueline Fatima Bocoum is a writer from Senegal, writing in French. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Tannella Boni is an Ivorian poet and novelist. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Hédi André Bouraoui (born July 16, 1932 in Sfax, Tunisia) is a Tunisian/Canadian poet, novelist and academic, who regularly deals with themes involving the transcendence of cultural boundaries. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... William Boyd is the name of four notable people: William Boyd (writer) William Boyd (actor), better known as Hopalong Cassidy William Boyd (bassist) William C. Boyd, the US immunologist See also: Billy Boyd This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the... Breyten Breytenbach (born September 16, 1939) is a South African writer and painter with French citizenship. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... André Philippus Brink (born on 29 May 1935 in Vrede) is a South African novelist. ... Akosua Busia (born December 30, Ghanaian actress based in the U.S.. The daughter of Kofi Abrefa Busia, the ex-prime minister of the Republic of Ghana, Akosua is a princess of the Royal Family of Wenchi, a subgroup of the Ashanti. ...

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1912 was a leap year starting on Monday. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Amílcar Cabral Amílcar Lopes Cabral (1924–January 20, 1973) was an African agronomic engineer, writer and nationalist. ... Look up Guinea-Bissau on Wiktionary, the free dictionary News allAfrica - Guinea Bissau news headline links Overviews BBC News Country Profile - Guinea-Bissau CIA World Factbook - Guinea-Bissau Directories LookSmart - Guinea-Bissau directory category Open Directory Project - Guinea Bissau directory category Stanford University - Africa South of the Sahara: Guinea-Bissau... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Laye Camara (1928-1980) was a novelist and short story writer from Upper Guinea. ... Albert Camus Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher and one of the principal luminaries (with Jean-Paul Sartre) of existentialism. ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of Alfred Nobel, produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... Syl Cheney-Cocker is a writer from Sierra Leone. ... Rocha Chimera is a Kenyan writer. ... Paulina Chiziane (born 4 June 1955, Manjacaze, Mozambique) is an author of novels and short stories in the Portuguese language. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sara Pinto Coelho (born 1913, São Tomé e Príncipe; died 1990, Portugal) was a writer of fiction and plays in the Portuguese language. ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... For the Temptations album, see 1990 (Temptations album) MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... J.M. Coetzee John Maxwell Coetzee (pronounced coot-SEE-uh) is a South African author. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of Alfred Nobel, produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Caetano da Costa Alegre (April 26, 1864_April 18, 1890) was a Portuguese poet. ... 1864 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bryce Courtenay (b. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mia Couto (born 5 July 1955, Beira, Mozambique), born António Emílio Leite Couto, is considered Mozambiques foremost novelist. ... José Craveirinha (born 28 May 1922, Lourenço Marques, now Maputo; died 6 February 2003, Maputo) is considered the greatest poet of Mozambique. ... Quobna Ottobah Cugoano (1757?-1801?) was an African abolitionist who was active in England in the latter half of the eighteenth century. ... 1757 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1801 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

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Bernard Binlin Dadi̩ (or sometimes Bernard Dadie) (born 1916 near Abidjan) is a prolific Ivorian novelist, playwright, poet, and ex-administrator. ... Tsitsi Dangarembga. ... This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Amma Darko (1956 - ) is an African writer. ... Malcolm de Chazal was a Mauritian writer, painter, and visionary, especially known for his Sens-Plastique, consisting of several thousand aphorisms and pens̩es He was born in Vacoas of a French family long established in Mauritius and wrote all his works in French. ... 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Mohammed Dib (1920-2003) was an Algerian author who wrote over 30 novels, as well as numerous short storys, poems, and childrens literature. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events WIKIPEDIA EATS VAGINA January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up Guinea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Government Permanent UN Mission of the Republic of Guinea official government site News AllAfrica. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Alpha Mande Diarra is a Malian author, born in 1954. ... The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the end of World War II to the Yugoslav wars. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Birago Diop (1906-1989) was a Senegalese poet and storyteller. ... Boubacar Boris Diop (born 1946 in Dakar) is a Senegalese writer. ... Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923- 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and staunch defender of the world view known as Afrocentrism, which places emphasis on the human races African origins and on the study of pre-colonial African culture. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Tahar Djaout (1954-1993) was an Algerian journalist and fiction writer. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Assia Djebar is the pen-name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (born August 4, 1936), an Algerian novelist, translator and filmaker. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Alda Neves da Gra a do Esp rito Santo (born 1926, S o Tom e Pr ncipe), known as Alda do Esp rito Santo, is a poet working in the Portuguese language. ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Emmanuel Dongala is a Congolese chemist and novelist. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Efua Dorkenoo is a Ghanaian campaigner against female genital cutting. ... Kabelo Sello Duiker, (April 13, 1974 РJanuary 19, 2005), was a South African novelist. ...

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1917 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Buchi Emecheta is a Nigerian novelist, whose works include: In the Ditch (1972, her first), Second Class Citizen, The Bride Price, The Slave Girl (Jock Campbell Award), The Joys of Motherhood, Destination Biafra, Naira Power, Double Yoke, Gwendolen, The Rape of Shavi, and Kehinde. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Olaudah Equiano Olaudah Equiano (c. ... // Events May 11 - War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy - At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the Black Watch June 4 – Frederick the Great destroys Austrian army at Hohenfriedberg August 19 - Beginning of the 45 Jacobite Rising at Glenfinnan September 12 - Francis I is elected... 1797 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...

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1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Daniel Olorunfemi Fagunwa MBE (1903 - 1963) was a Nigerian novelist. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nuruddin Farah (b. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ruth First (1925-1982) was a white South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar born in Johannesburg, South Africa. ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lynne Freed is a fiction writer who was born in Durban, South Africa. ... Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard (born in 1932), better known as Athol Fugard, is a well-known South African playwright. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard (born in 1932), better known as Athol Fugard, is a well-known South African playwright. ... Dan Fulani is a Nigerian fiction writer, with 16 published books to his credit since 1981, including: Flight 800 Sauna, Secret Agent JAWS, Level 2: The Angel Who Wore Shoes The Fearless Four Hijack Categories: Nigeria related stubs | African writer stubs ... Alexandra Fuller (born 1969) is an English author. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ...

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1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nadine Gordimer (b. ... 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of Alfred Nobel, produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... His memoir is Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa, about growing up in Rhodesia in 1964 as the British colony is collapsing. ...

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1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Head was the child of a wealthy white South African woman and a Black servant when interracial relationships were illegal in South Africa. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Luis Bernado Honwano is a Mozambican author. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Paulin Hountondji (b. ... This article is about the year. ... Chenjerai Hove (born 1956) is a Zimbabwean poet, novelist and essayist. ... Emma Huismans is an Afrikaans writer, journalist, and activist born in the Netherlands on July 10, 1947. ...

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1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Moses Isegawa (born August 10, 1963 in Uganda) is an author. ...

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1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Samuel Johnson (1846-1901) was an Anglican minister and historian of the Yoruba who is sometimes called The Reverend Samuel Johnson for being an Anglican minister. ... Archibald Campbell Mzolisa Jordan, novelist, literary historian and intellectual pioneer of African studies in South Africa, was born on 30 October 1906 at the Mbokothwane Mission in the Tsolo district, Pondoland (later Transkei), as son of an Anglican Church minister. ... Elsa Joubert, born as Elsabé Antoinette Murray on 19 October 1922 in Paarl, is an Afrikaans-speaking South African writer. ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

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1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The French language autobiography of Esther Kamatari HRH Princess Esther Kamatari (born 1951) is a writer, model, and exiled Burundian princess. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Cheikh Hamidou Kane is a Senegalese writer, born April 3, 1928 in Matam, best known for his prizewinning autobiographical novel Laventure ambiguë (Ambiguous Adventure), about the effect of western culture on Africa. ... Farida Karodia is a South African novelist and short-story writer born in 1942. ... This article is about the year. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1912 was a leap year starting on Monday. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Ken Bugul is a Senegalese novelist. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jomo Kenyatta (October 20, 1892?–August 22, 1978) was an African politician, the first Prime Minister (1963–1964) and President (1964–1978) of an independent Kenya. ... 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Professor Euphrase Kezilahabi is a contemporary Tanzanian novelist, poet, and scholar, born April 13, 1944, in Ukerewe, Tanganyika (now in Tanzania). ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa (also spelled as Ungulani ba ka Khosa) is a Mozambican writer. ... Joseph Ki-Zerbo (born 1922) is a Burkinabè historian and politician. ... Moussa Konaté is a Malian writer, born in 1951 in Kita (Mali). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Marie-Christine Koundja is a writer from Chad. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ahmadou Kourouma, (1927—December 11, 2003) was an african novelist. ... Antije Krog is a leading Afrikaans South African novelist and poet. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

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Sony Labou Tansi (1947-1995) was a Congolese novelist and poet. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... David Lambkin is an English novelist. ... Anne Landsman is a South African-born novelist. ... Alda Ferreira Pires Barreto de Lara Albuquerque (born 9 June 1930, Benguela, Angola; died 30 January 1962, Cambambe, a large poetic output in the Portuguese language. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Guinean novelist, short story writer, and essayist, who first gained fame in the 1950s with his novels LEnfant noir (1953, The African Child), a poetic re-creation of the authors childhood days, and Le Regard du roi (1954, The Radiance of the King). ... Doris Lessing, CH, OBE (born October 22, 1919), is a British writer, born Doris May Taylor in Kermanshah, Persia (Iran). ... The Persian Empire is the name used to refer to a number of historic dynasties that have ruled the country of Persia (Iran). ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Douglas Livingstone (1932 - 1996) was a South African poet. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

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linus Asong, Cameroon 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sindiwe Magona (born 1943) is a South African writer. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic: نجيب محفوظ ) (born December 11, 1911) is an Egyptian novelist. ... 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of Alfred Nobel, produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Amina Mama is a Nigerian feminist writer and academic. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, (born July 18, 1918), was the first democratically elected President of South Africa, having previously been a prominent anti-apartheid activist there. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nozipa Maraire (born 1966) is a Zimbabwean writer. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Eugene Marais (1871-1936) was a South African writer and scientist. ... René Maran (1887 – 1960) was the first black writer to win the French Prix Goncourt. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) was a Zimbabwean novelist and poet. ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mark Mathabane, born Johannes Mathabane, is a tennis player, author, and lecturer. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Edouard Joseph Marc Maunick (September 23, 1931, Mauritius) was an African poet, critic, and translator. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ken Bugul is a Senegalese novelist. ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... James McClure (born 1939, Johannesburg, South Africa) is a British author and journalist best known for his Kramer and Zondi mysteries set in South Africa. ... This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John van Melle (February 11, 1887 - November 8, 1953) was a Dutch-born South African author. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Albert Memmi (born December 15, 1920) is a Tunisian-born French writer and essayist. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Thomas Mokopu Mofolo (December 22, 1876- September 8, 1948) is considered to be the greatest Lesotho writer. ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1935(MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Tierno Monénembo (Thierno Saïdou Diallo) was born in Guinea in 1947. ... Yolanda Morazzo (born 1928, São Vicente, Cape Verde) is a writer of poetry and short fiction in the Portuguese language. ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ahlam (or Ahlem) Mosteghanemi, the daughter of Algerian revolutionary leader Mohammed Chérif, is a notable Algerian writer. ... Salama Moussa (Arabic: سلامه موسى ) (1887 - 1958) was a famous writer and thinker of the Arab world. ... 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Phaswane Mpe, (September 10, 1970 – December 12, 2004), was a South African poet and novelist. ... Ezekiel Eskia Mphahlele (born December 17, 1919) was a South African writer. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Valentine Y. Mudimbe is a philosopher, professor, and author of non-fiction books and articles about African culture, poems, and novels. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Charles Mungoshi (b. ... Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa (b 1921 in Natal, South Africa) is a South African author and witch doctor. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...


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1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jabula Ndebele is a South African writer. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Djibril Tamsir Niane is a historian, playwright, and short story writer born January 9, 1932 in Conakry, Guinea. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Born: 10 November, 1954 Tygerhoek, South Africa Country of Birth: South Africa Language: Afrikaans // Biography Marlene van Niekerk is a South African author who is best known for her novel Triomf. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Kwame Nkrumah (September 21, 1909 - April 27, 1972) was a Ghanaian politician and one of the most influential founders of Pan-Africanism. ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Arthur Nortje (1942 - 1970) was a South African poet. ... This article is about the year. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Sibusiso Nyembezi(1919-2000) A South African known as a Zulu novelist, poet, scholar, teacher and editor. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sekai Nzenza Shand was born in Zimbabwe, but was educated in England and Australia. ...

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Okello Oculi (b. ... This article is about the year. ... Grace Ogot was born in May 15, 1930 in Asembo, Kenya. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo (1932-1967) was a Nigerian poet, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra. ... Ben Okri (born March 15, 1959) is a Nigerian poet and novelist. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Yambo Ouologuem (August 22, 1940 - ) is a Sudanese writer who wrote under the pseudonym Utto Rodolph. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ousmane Sembène (b. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ferdinand Léopold Oyono (born 1929) is an author from Cameroon whose work is recognized for irony that shows how easily people can be fooled. ...

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Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African author. ... 1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Okot pBitek (1931 – 1982) was a Ugandan poet, who achieved wide international recognition for the English version of his Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up the urban life and wishes everything to be Westernised. ... Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos (born in Benguela, Angola, in 1941) is a major Angolan writer of fiction. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... Solomon Tshekiso Plaatje (1877 – June 19, 1932) was an African polyglot, journalist, writer and statesman. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sir Laurens Jan van der Post by Frances Baruch Sir Laurens Jan van der Post (aka Laurens van der Post) December 13, 1906 - December 16, 1996. ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

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1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

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Jean Joseph Rabearivelo (1901 - 1937), was a Malagasy poet writing in both Malagasy and French. ... 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Angèle Ntyugwetondo Rawiri (born 29 April 1954) is a Gabonese novelist. ... Alifa Rifaat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Yambo Ouologuem (August 22, 1940 - ) is a Sudanese writer who wrote under the pseudonym Utto Rodolph. ... Rajat Neogy (1938–1995), a Ugandan of Indian ancestry, was a writer, poet, publisher and founder of Transition Magazine. ...

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The Early Days Other spellings: Jehan Sadat, Jihan elSadat, Jihan Al Sadat. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Tayeb Salih is a noted Sudanese writer. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Williams Sassine(1944-1996) was a Guinean novelist who wrote in French. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... Riana Scheepers Afrikaans author born December 9, 1957. ... Alan Scholefield (1931- )is a South African writer famous for his Macrae and Silver series. ... Olive Schreiner (Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner) (March 24, 1855 - December 11, 1920) was a South African writer. ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events WIKIPEDIA EATS VAGINA January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ousmane Sembène (b. ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... Léopold Sédar Senghor (October 9, 1906–December 20, 2001) was an Seneglese poet and politician who served as the first president of Senegal (1960–1980). ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Mongane Wally Serote (1944-) is a South African poet and writer. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Robert Bin Shaaban, also known as Robert Shaaban (1909-1962), was a Tanzanian poet and author who supported the preservation of African verse traditions. ... Gillian Slovo, born in 1952, is a South African novelist, playwright and memoirist. ... Alexander (R.A.) Sandy McCall Smith (1948 -) is a writer and emeritus professor of medical law at the University of Edinburgh. ... Wilbur Addison Smith (b. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... 1935(MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ahdaf Soueif is an Egyptian short story writer and novelist. ... Carolina Noémia Abranches de Sousa Soares (born 1926) is a poet from Mozambique who writes in the Portuguese language. ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Aminata Sow Fall is a Senegalese-born author. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka (b. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of Alfred Nobel, produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

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Véronique Tadjo is a writer, poet, and artist from Côte dIvoire. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Tchicaya U Tamsi (born August 25, 1931 in Mpili; died April 22, 1988 in Bazancourt, near Paris) was a Congolese author. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Abibatou Traoré is a member of the Eminent Minds panel created by Secretary General Kofi Annan. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin (born 1936) is an Ethiopian poet, playwright, essayist, and art director. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Amos Tutuola (June 20, 1920 - June 8, 1997) was a Nigerian writer famous for his books based on Yoruba folk-tales. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events WIKIPEDIA EATS VAGINA January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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Professor Charles Van Onselen is a research professor and historian, based at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. ... Olaudah Equiano Olaudah Equiano (c. ... Moyez G. Vassanji (who writes as M.G. Vassanji) is a Kenyan/Canadian novelist. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Dr. Yvonne Vera (September 19, 1964 - April 7, 2005) was an award-winning author from Zimbabwe. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... José Luandino Vieira (born May 4, 1935) was an Angolan writer of short fiction and novels. ... Dr Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (January 1, 1906 - October 26, 1947) was a South African Zulu poet and educator, and the first African to be awarded a Doctor of Literature. ... Lettie Viljoen was a pseudonym of the South African author Ingrid Gouws, who primarily writes in Afrikaans. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

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Ugonna Wachuku is a creative author of inspirational dimensions. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Jet dEau in Geneva Geneva (French: Genève) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland, situated where Lake Geneva (known in French as Lac Léman) flows into the Rhône River. ... March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Ngugi wa Mirii was born in Roromo, Limuru in 1951. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo (born January 5, 1938) is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His books include novels, plays, short stories, essays and scholarship, criticism and childrens literature. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Stephen Watson (1955-) is a South African poet. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Zoe Wicomb is an author born in Namaqualand, South Africa in 1948. ... Ken Saro-Wiwa was a successful businessman, novelist, television producer and political activist in Nigeria. ... Ken Wiwa is a journalist and author. ... Mammo Wudneh is a playwright, journalist and President of the Ethiopian Writers Association. ...

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Kateb Yacine (1929 - 1989) was an Algerian writer. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ouologuem Yambo is an African writer. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Frederick Kambemba Yamusangie is a novelist, playwright and poet who was born and partly brought up in Zaire (now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo) in Africa. ...

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Rachel Zadok was born in South Africa in 1972. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1935(MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

See also

African Writers (by country): This is a list of literary figures from the African continent, listed by country, including poets, novelists, childrens writers, essayists, and scholars, listed by country. ... The following are lists of authors and writers: // By name A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z By type of writing or genre List of hindi writers List of prolific bloggers...

External links

  • Contemporary Africa Database

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