The Boughs

The Almighty of creation

2. Owa D.O. Fagunwa

3. Owa Amos Tutuola

4. Nadine Gordimer

5. Owa James Baldwin

6. Owa Toni Morrison aka Chloe Anthony Wofford

7. Owa Ancestor Nawal El Sadaawi

8. Professor Francis Abiola Irele

9. Professor Abiola Irele

10. Owa Bessie Head

11. Professor Wole Soyinka

12. Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Oya)

13. Ayi Kwei Armah (Oya)

14. Professor J.M. Coetzee

15. Professor Ama Ata Aidoo

16. Margaret Busby

17. Alice Walker

18. Jamaica Kincaid

19. Dambudzo Marechera

20. Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah

21. Mario Van Peebles

22. Wangui wa Goro

23. Tarrell Alvin McCraney (Oya)

24. King Sunny Ade, Salawa Abeni, Ebeneezer Obey, Shina Peters & Onyeka Onwenu

25. Dr Oyeronke Oyewumi & Dr. Abidemi Bakare-Yusuf

26. Nike Jonah & Abu Bundu-Kamara, Elise Dillsworth & Alison Morrison

27. Awa Idile Fatunla ati Adesina

28. Fela Anikulapo-Kuti

29. Chinua Achebe, Nana Ayebia-Clarke, Lynette Lisk

30. Dr. Nana Wilson-Tagoe & Dr. Kwadwo Osei-Nyame

31. Dipo Agboluaje

32.Biyi Bandele

33. Muhtar Bakare

34. Linton Kwesi Johnson

35. Talib Kweli & Mos Def

36. Derek Walcott

37. Jean Rhys

38. Grace Nichols

39. Sade Adu (Oya)

40. For the future writers – and all writers, female, male, queer, non-binary and all shades in between who strive valiantly

Shikenan

Citations to follow, meanwhile, e fi ife pon awon alakowe yi le