March 21 - Chinua Achebe, 82, Nigerian novelist, poet and academic, after short-illness.

Karen Ann King-Aribisala (born Guyana) is a Nigerian novelist, and short story writer.

In one of these essays, the Nigerian novelist takes on Joseph Conrad and his depiction of Africa as a land of uncivilized darkness.

Isidore Okpewho (born 1941 Abraka, Nigeria) is a Nigerian novelist, and critic.

He had a daughter with Nigerian novelist, Flora Nwapa.

Nkem Nwankwo (12 June 1936 - 12 June 2001) was a Nigerian novelist and poet.

Helon Habila (born 1967) is a Nigerian novelist and poet.

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani (born 1976 Enugu, Nigeria) is a Nigerian novelist.

Chinua Achebe (16 November 1930 - 22 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.

Helen Aiyeohusa Ovbiagele (born 1944) is a Nigerian novelist.