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Edwige-Renée Dro
Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
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Lola Shoneyin
Nigeria
,
United Kingdom
1974
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Linton Kwesi Johnson
Jamaica
,
United Kingdom
1952
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Opal Palmer Adisa
Jamaica
1954
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Claude McKay
Jamaica
,
United States
1890
–
1948
Yambo Ouologuem
Mali
1940
–
2017
Ben Okri
Nigeria
,
United Kingdom
1959
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Geoffrey Philp
Jamaica
1958
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Hawa Jande Golakai
Liberia
1979
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Lisa Allen-Agostini
Trinidad and Tobago
1970
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Helon Habila
Nigeria
1967
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Kwame Dawes
Ghana
,
Jamaica
1962
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Boubacar Boris Diop
Senegal
1946
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Jully Makini
Solomon Islands
1953
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Marion Bethel
Bahamas
1953
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Wole Soyinka
Nigeria
1934
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Vladimir Lucien
Saint Lucia
1988
–
Blessing Musariri
Zimbabwe
1973
–
Okot p’Bitek
Uganda
1931
–
1982
Charles W. Chesnutt
United States
1858
–
1932
Caryl Phillips
Saint Kitts & Nevis
,
United Kingdom
1958
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Bernardine Evaristo
United Kingdom
1959
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Kayo Chingonyi
United Kingdom
,
Zambia
1987
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Hilda J. Twongyeirwe
Uganda
–
Sapphire
United States
–
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
France
,
Rwanda
1979
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Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Nigeria
,
United Kingdom
1968
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Teju Cole
Nigeria
,
United States
1975
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Louise Bennett-Coverley
Jamaica
1919
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2006
Angelique V. Nixon
Bahamas
,
Trinidad and Tobago
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Carlos E. Russell
Panama
1934
–
2018
Kendel Hippolyte
Saint Lucia
1952
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Clifton Gachagua
Kenya
1987
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J. J. Bola
Democratic Republic of the Congo
,
France
,
United Kingdom
1986
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Gabriel Okara
Nigeria
1921
–
2019
Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Ghana
,
United Kingdom
1974
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Fiston Mwanza Mujila
Democratic Republic of the Congo
1981
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Lyonel Trouillot
Haiti
1956
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Aimé Cesaire
France
1913
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2008
Zahra Gordon
Trinidad and Tobago
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Merle Collins
Grenada
1950
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Efua Sutherland
Ghana
1924
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1996
Taban Lo Liyong
South Sudan
1938
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Tlotlo Tsamaase
Botswana
1989
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Tarek Eltayeb
Austria
,
Egypt
,
Sudan
1959
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Kenya
1938
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Suheir Hammad
United States
1973
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Téa Mutonji
Canada
,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Samuella J. Conteh
Sierra Leone
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Ntozake Shange
United States
1948
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2018
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