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• PoetryThe Ifa CorpusIfáAnonymous · 1600The diviner learns thousands of verses by heart over ten to twenty years, and he does not choose what he recites: he casts, reads the figure, and says what comes.Literature
• NovelOmenukoPita Nwana · 1935The life of an Aro merchant of the nineteenth century, told in his own language at the moment when the colonial administration began to encourage African writing.Literature
• NovelThe Palm-Wine DrinkardAmos Tutuola · 1952The country has more than five hundred languages and English is the only official one: to write in 1952 in an English that is not the English of the schoolroom first passes for a mistake.Literature
• PoetryAfrica SingsDennis Osadebay · 1952The verse of a customs officer turned law student in London, first given to the nationalist press, in the years when calls for independence begin.Literature
• NovelThings Fall ApartChinua Achebe · 1958The country's independence is two years away, and the only novels Europe has read about this region were written by Europeans.Literature
• NovelOne Man, One WifeT. M. Aluko · 1959A village in the colonial period, where Christian monogamy clashes with polygamy and the power of the traditional notables.Literature
• CinemaMy Father's BurdenSegun Olusola · 1960The first months of television in Africa, where a young playwright and a twenty-five-year-old producer bring to the studio what was being played out in the street.Cinema
• PoetryPoemsJohn Pepper Clark-Bekederemo · 1961The first poems of a student from the delta, first published in university magazines, as the country becomes independent.Literature
• EssayZik: A Selection from the Speeches of Nnamdi AzikiweNnamdi Azikiwe · 1961The speeches of a journalist turned political leader, gathered at the moment when the federation attains independence and seeks its institutions.Literature
• NovelBurning GrassCyprian Ekwensi · 1962Among the Fulani herders of the northern savannas, when the grass of the plains is burned and the herds go down to the river, a chief struck by a curse leaves his people and follows everything that flies.Literature
• CinemaThe AncestorsAndré Libik · 1962The view of a foreigner employed by the Nigerian administration on a religion of the country, in the first years of independence.Cinema
• NovelDandaNkem Nwankwo · 1964An Igbo village in the east of the country, in the last years before independence, where money, the mission and the school undo what the elders believed unchangeable.Literature
• PoetryLimitsChristopher Okigbo · 1964The country's English-language poetry is then written in the universities and published in very small print runs, three years before the secession of Biafra scatters this generation.Literature
• NovelToads for SupperVincent Chukwuemeka Ike · 1965On an imaginary campus in the south of the country, in the aftermath of independence, the first generation of students discovers what families think of mixed marriages.Literature
• NovelThe ConcubineElechi Amadi · 1966A village in the east of the country before the Europeans appear there, where diviners, charms and water spirits govern lives as surely as the seasons.Literature
• NovelThe Only SonJohn Munonye · 1966An Igbo village in the early days of colonial administration, where a mother on her own must choose between keeping her son with her and entrusting him to the mission school.Literature
• NovelEfuruFlora Nwapa · 1966An Igbo town on a lakeshore in the colonial era, where a woman's worth is counted in children and where one of them holds her rank through trade.Literature
• NovelSeason of AnomyWole Soyinka · 1973The country is emerging from a thirty-month civil war whose dead number in the millions, and the writers who lived through it are all writing then about what they saw.Literature
• NovelSecond-Class CitizenBuchi Emecheta · 1974West Indian and African immigration of the sixties finds lodging in the cheap furnished rooms of the capital, where the signs still announce to whom one does not let.Literature
• NovelThe Anonymity of SacrificeI. N. C. Aniebo · 1974The civil war seen from the losing side, by a soldier who tells less of the fighting than of what defeat does to the men who undergo it together.Literature
• NovelKolera KolejFemi Osofisan · 1975A university cut off from the world by an epidemic discovers itself to be a sovereign state and repeats, on the scale of a campus, all the mistakes of the continent's young states.Literature
• NovelThe Last DutyIsidore Okpewho · 1976A border town of the civil war, where a minority caught between the two armies pays for both, and where the occupation serves above all to settle neighbourhood scores.Literature
• CinemaAjani OgunOla Balogun · 1976Yoruba Nigeria in the seventies, where oil money has put in place men who know how to use writing against those who have no access to it.Cinema
• CinemaShaihu UmarAdamu Halilu · 1976The north of the country at the end of the nineteenth century, when raids and slave caravans still crossed the savanna, told from the point of view of a child caught up in them.Cinema
• CinemaBisi, Daughter of the RiverJab Adu · 1977Between a coastal village where one still owes one's person to the water deities and the Lagos of offices and business, a young woman makes a choice and pays for it.Cinema
• CinemaThe MaskEddie Ugbomah · 1979Two years after the great festival in Lagos, where the country had asked in vain for the mask that had become its emblem, a film sets out to return it by the only route left, that of fiction.Cinema
• CinemaOrun MooruMoses Olaiya Adejumo · 1982Nigeria in the years of easy money, where the promise of quick enrichment is sold on the street corner, seen through the country's most popular comic character.Cinema
• TheatreA Hen Too SoonTess Onwueme · 1983A village in the delta where school has given a teenage girl ideas that the custom of arranged marriage did not foresee.Literature
• PoetrySongs of the MarketplaceNiyi Osundare · 1983The Nigeria of the Second Republic seen from the market and the village, in a writing that refuses obscurity in the name of those it speaks about.Literature
• NovelThe StillbornZaynab Alkali · 1984A village in the Muslim north where three young girls imagine their lives according to what they have been promised, and where the city stands in for the future.Literature
• Short storiesAfrica Kills Her SunKen Saro-Wiwa · 1989Public executions of armed robbers, shot in front of the crowd, are then a regular practice in the country, and the press publishes photographs of them.Literature
• NovelThe Famished RoadBen Okri · 1991The belief in the abiku, the child who dies and returns to be born into the same family, is an ordinary fact of life for Yoruba families and not a figure of speech.Literature
• CinemaLiving in BondageChris Obi Rapu · 1992The country no longer has working cinemas, and the video cassette sold in the markets becomes the only way a film has of finding its audience.Cinema
• CinemaTi Oluwa Ni IleTunde Kelani · 1993Sacred land sold off to oilmen and the wrath of the gods: Tunde Kelani's first film.Cinema
• CinemaGlamour GirlsKenneth Nnebue · 1994Lagos in the early nineties, where women living outside any man's authority cause scandal, and where the public pays to watch them.Cinema
• CinemaBlood Money: The Vulture MenBlood MoneyChico Ejiro · 1997Nigeria at the end of the nineties, where sudden wealth is thought always to carry an occult price, and where the audience pays to see it told.Cinema
• CinemaBenitaTony Muonagor · 1999Nigerian video production then rests on a shoot of a few days and on direct sale at the market, without going through cinemas or any circuit of preservation.Cinema

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