Celebrate Nigeria
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Genevieve Nnaji
Genevieve Nnaji (born 1979) is Nigeria's most iconic actress, producer, and director. Her Nollywood career began at age ...
Sir Victor Uwaifo
Sir Victor Efosa Uwaifo (1941-2021) was a Nigerian musician, writer, sculptor, and musical instrument inventor. His 1969...
2Baba (Tuface Idibia)
Innocent Ujah Idibia (born 1975), known as 2Baba or 2face Idibia, is one of Nigeria's most celebrated musicians. Rising ...
Onyeka Onwenu
Onyeka Onwenu (born 1952) is a legendary Nigerian singer, songwriter, actress, and journalist known as the "Elegant Stal...
Nneka Egbuna
Nneka Egbuna (born 1980) is a Nigerian-German singer-songwriter whose music fuses soul, hip-hop, reggae, and African rhy...
Ebenezer Obey
Chief Commander Ebenezer Remilekun Aremu Olasupo Obey-Fabiyi (born 1942), known as Ebenezer Obey, is a legendary Jùjú mu...
Ben Enwonwu
Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu MBE (1917-1994) was Africa's most influential 20th-century artist. Born in Onitsha, he st...
King Sunny Adé
King Sunny Adé (born 1946) revolutionized Jùjú music by incorporating electric guitars, synthesizers, and pedal steel gu...
Wole Soyinka
Professor Wole Soyinka (born 1934) made history as Africa's first Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1986). His plays inc...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Adichie (born 1977) is Nigeria's most celebrated contemporary writer. Her novels include "Purple Hibiscus" (C...
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
Fela Kuti (1938-1997) created Afrobeat—a fusion of jazz, funk, highlife, and traditional Yoruba music. His songs like "Z...
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) was a literary giant whose novel "Things Fall Apart" (1958) revolutionized African literature....