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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

This Kenyan author learned and spoke Gĩkũyũ and Swahili at home but began his career writing in English. He has written many works including Weep Not, Child, and The River Between.

Chinua Achebe

This prominent Nigerian author of Things Fall Apart also penned an essay called "The African Writer and the English Language."

Léopold Sédar Senghor

This renowned Senegalese poet was one of the prominent founders of the Négritude movement and embraced the French language.

David Diop

This prominent poet within the Négritude movement wrote "The Renegade" but later eviscerated against colonial languages.

Wole Soyinka

This Nigerian playwright and poet uses the English language and is referred to by the author as an Afro-European writer. He was the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986.

Obi Wali

This Nigerian literary scholar, politician, and orator...

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