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Awards, lists (for example top 20 whatever) that start establishing notability. Especially looking for lists or awards that are posthumous or for lifetime achievement so as to get people from the past and not just the current moment.

The 2010 Garden City Literary Festival honored 50 Nigerian writers

 * Daily Independent (Lagos), Copyright © 2011 Daily Independent. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). Don't know why only 48 of the 50 were listed.


 * 1) Chinua Achebe
 * 2) Adenubi Mobolaji
 * 3) Adewale-Gabriel Toyin
 * 4) Adichie Chimamanda
 * 5) Agary Kaine
 * 6) Funso Aiyejina
 * 7) Akpan Uwem
 * 8) Alkali Zaynab
 * 9) T. M. Aluko
 * 10) Elechi Amadi
 * 11) J.P. Clark
 * 12) Cyprian Ekwensi
 * 13) Akachi Ezeigbo
 * 14) D.O. Fagunwa
 * 15) Femi Fatoba
 * 16) Abubakar Gimba
 * 17) Helon Habila
 * 18) James Henshaw
 * 19) Ogaga Ifowodo
 * 20) Chukwuemeka Ike
 * 21) Abubakar Imam
 * 22) Esiaba Irobi
 * 23) Festus Iyayi
 * 24) Karen King-Aribisala
 * 25) Flora Nwapa
 * 26) Adaobi Nwaubani
 * 27) Odia Ofeimun
 * 28) Ezenwa Ohaeto
 * 29) Tanure Ojaide
 * 30) Gabriel Okara
 * 31) Wale Okediran
 * 32) Christopher Okigbo
 * 33) Ifeoma Okoye
 * 34) Ben Okri
 * 35) Kole Omotosho
 * 36) Femi Osofisan
 * 37) Niyi Osundare
 * 38) Ola Rotimi
 * 39) Ken Saro-wiwa
 * 40) Mabel Segun
 * 41) Zulu Sofola
 * 42) Bode Sowande
 * 43) Soyinka
 * 44) Ibrahim Tahir
 * 45) Amos Tutuola
 * 46) Mamman Vatsa
 * 47) Ahmed Yerima
 * 48) Sefi Atta

  

"Art of Africa: The 50 best African artists"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/art-of-africa-the-50-best-african-artists-426441.html Chosen by a panel
 * 1) Oga Steve Abah, PLAYWRIGHT (Nigeria)
 * 2) Chinua Achebe, AUTHOR (Nigeria)
 * 3) David Adjaye, ARCHITECT (Tanzania)
 * 4) Newton Aduaka, FILM DIRECTOR (Nigeria)
 * 5) Mahmoud Ahmed, MUSICIAN (Ethiopia)
 * 6) Ama Ata Aidoo, PLAYWRIGHT (Ghana)
 * 7) Amadou AND Mariam, MUSICIANS (Mali)
 * 8) Ayi Kwei Armah, AUTHOR (Ghana)
 * 9) Les Ballets Africains, DANCERS AND MUSICIANS (Guinea) formed by Guinean choreographer Keita Fodeba
 * 10) Biyi Bandele, AUTHOR (Nigeria)
 * 11) Sokari Douglas Camp, ARTIST (Nigeria)
 * 12) Boyzie Cekwana, CHOREOGRAPHER AND DANCER (South Africa)
 * 13) Souleymane Cisse, FILM DIRECTOR (Mali)
 * 14) Lueen Conning, PLAYWRIGHT (South Africa)
 * 15) Tsitsi Dangarembga, AUTHOR (Zimbabwe)
 * 16) Toumani Diabate, MUSICIAN (Mali)
 * 17) Dilomprizulike, ARTIST (Nigeria)
 * 18) Cesaria Evora, SINGER (Cape Verde)
 * 19) Samuel Fosso, PHOTOGRAPHER (Cameroon)
 * 20) Flora Gomes, FILM DIRECTOR (Guinea-Bissau)
 * 21) Pierre Atepa Gouidaby, ARCHITECT (Senegal)
 * 22) Mahamat Saleh Haroun, FILM DIRECTOR (Chad)
 * 23) Delia Jarrett-Macauley, AUTHOR (Sierra Leone)
 * 24) Salif Keita, MUSICIAN (Mali)
 * 25) Khaled, MUSICIAN (Algeria)
 * 26) Abdoulaye Konate, ARTIST (Mali)
 * 27) konono No 1, MUSICIANS (Congo) with band leader Mawangu Mingiedi
 * 28) Femi Kuti, MUSICIAN (Nigeria)
 * 29) Faustin Linyekula, CHOREOGRAPHER AND DANCER (Congo)
 * 30) Vincent Mantsoe, CHOREOGRAPHER AND DANCER (South Africa)
 * 31) Zola Maseko, FILM DIRECTOR (South Africa)
 * 32) Souad Massi, SINGER (Algeria)
 * 33) Youssou N'Dour, MUSICIAN (Senegal) and band Super Etoile de Dakar
 * 34) Kettly Noel, CHOREOGRAPHER AND DANCER (Haiti/Mali)
 * 35) Idrissa Ouedraogo, FILM-MAKER (Upper Volta/Burkina Faso)
 * 36) Tracey Rose, ARTIST (South Africa)
 * 37) Ibrahim El Salahi, ARTIST (Sudan)
 * 38) Ousmane Sembene, FILM-MAKER (Senegal)
 * 39) Abderrahmane Sissako, FILM DIRECTOR (Mauritania/Mali)
 * 40) Wole Soyinka, DRAMATIST, NOVELIST, POET (Nigeria)
 * 41) Rachid Taha, MUSICIAN (Algeria)
 * 42) Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, AUTHOR (Kenya)
 * 43) Tinariwen, MUSICIANS (Mali)
 * 44) Rokia traore, MUSICIAN (Mali)
 * 45) Binyavanga Wainana, AUTHOR (Kenya)
 * 46) Zola, MUSICIAN (South Africa)
 * 47) Athol Fugard, PLAYWRIGHT (South Africa)
 * 48) K'naan, RAPPER (Somalia)
 * 49) Oumou Sy, FASHION DESIGNER (Senegal)

Then a few artists the author reccommended though these were not all chosen by the panelists:
 * Kouyaté Sory "the inspiration behind African ballet"
 * Miriam Makeba music South Africa then Guinea
 * Oumou Sy fashion designer from Senegal
 * Chéri Samba painter from Congo

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century
a juried list from the Zimbabwe International Book Fair

Literature for children

 * 1) Meshack Asare, 	Ghana	**Sosu's Call	Sub-Saharan Publishers
 * 2) Hayam Abbas Al-Homi, Egypt	Adventures of a Breath	Atfalna
 * 3) Charles Mungoshi, Zimbabwe	Stories from a Shona Childhood	Baobab Books
 * 4) Veronique Tadjo, Côte d'Ivoire	Mamy Wata et le monstre	Nouvelles éditions ivoriennes

Creative writing

 * 1) `Abd al-Rahman Abnudi, 	Egypt	al-Mawt `ala al-asfalt	Atlas
 * 2) Chinua Achebe, 	Nigeria	Arrow of God	Heinemann
 * 3) Chinua Achebe, 	Nigeria	**Things Fall Apart	Heinemann
 * 4) Ama Ata Aidoo,	Ghana 	Anowa	Longman
 * 5) Germano Almeida, 	Cape Verde	O testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo	Ed. Caminho
 * 6) Armah, Ayi Kwei	Ghana	The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born	Heinemann
 * Bâ, Amadou Hampâté	Mali	L'étrange destin de Wangrin	Union générale d'éditions
 * Bâ, Mariama	Senegal	**Une si longue lettre	Nouvelles éditions africaines
 * 1) Ben Jelloun, Tahar	Morocco	La nuit sacrée	Seuil
 * 2) Beti, Mongo	Cameroon	Le pauvre Christ de Bomba	Présence africaine
 * 3) Brink, André	South Africa	A Dry White Season	Penguin
 * 4) Bugul, Ken	Senegal	Riwan, ou le chemin de sable	Présence africaine
 * 5) Cheney-Choker, Syl	Sierra Leone	The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar	Heinemann
 * 6) Chraibi, Driss	Morocco	Le passé simple	Gallimard
 * 7) Coetzee, J.M.	South Africa	Life and Times of Michael K	Secker & Warburg
 * 8) Mia Couto,	Mozambique	**Terra sonâmbula	Ed. Caminho
 * 9) José Craveirinha,	Mozambique	Karingana ua Karingana	Academica
 * 10) Bernard Dadié,	Côte d'Ivoire	Climbié	Editions Segiers
 * 11) Dangarembga, Tsitsi	Zimbabwe	**Nervous Conditions	Women's Press
 * Dib, Mohammed	Algeria	Algérie, La grande maison, L'incendie, Le métier à tisser	Le Seuil
 * 1) Birago Diop,	Senegal	Les contes d'Amadou Koumba	Présence africaine
 * 2) Boubacar Boris Diop,	Senegal	Murambi ou le livre des ossements	Stock
 * 3) Assia Djebar,	Algeria	**L'amour, la fantasia	J.C. Lattes
 * 4) Buchi Emecheta,	Nigeria	The Joys of Motherhood	Alison and Busby
 * 5) Daniel O. Fagunwa,	Nigeria	Ogboju ode ninu igbo irunmale	Nelson
 * 6) Nuruddin Farah,	Somalia	Maps	Pan Books
 * 7) Athol Fugard,	South Africa	The Blood Knot	Simondium Publishers
 * 8) Jamal al-Ghitani,	Egypt	Zayni Barakat	GEBO
 * 9) Nadine Gordimer,	South Africa	Burgher's Daughter	Jonathan Cape
 * 10) Bessie Head,	South Africa	A Question of Power	Heinemann
 * 11) Bernardo Honwana,	Mozambique	Nos matamos o cão tinhoso	Academica
 * 12) Chenjerai Hove,	Zimbabwe	Bones	Baobab Books
 * 13) Moses Isegawa,	Uganda	Abessijnse Kronieken	Uigeverij De Bezige Bij
 * 14) Jordan, Archibald Campbell	South Africa	Ingqumbo yeminyanya	Lovedale Press
 * 15) Joubert, Elsa	South Africa	Die Swerdjare van Poppie Nongena	Tafelberg
 * 16) Kane, Cheikh Hamidou	Senegal	L'aventure ambiguë	Editions Juillard
 * 17) Khosa, Ungulani Ba Ka	Mozambique	Ualalapi	AEMO
 * 18) Kourouma, Ahmadou	Côte d'Ivoire	Les soleils des indépendances	Le Seuil
 * 19) Laye, Camara	Guinea	L'enfant noir	Plon
 * 20) Magona, Sindiwe	South Africa	Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night	David Philip Publishers
 * 21) Mahfouz, Naguib	Egypt	**The Cairo Trilogy	Maktabet Misr
 * 22) Marechera, Dambudzo	Zimbabwe	House of Hunger	Heinemann
 * 23) Thomas Mofolo,	Lesotho	**Chaka	Morija Sesuto Book Depot
 * 24) Monenembo, Tierno	Guinea	Un attieké pour Elgass	Le Seuil
 * 25) Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo	South Africa	Indaba, My Children	Blue Crane Books
 * 26) Ngugi wa Thiong'o	Kenya	Caitaani Mutharaba-ini	Heinemann
 * 27) Ngugi wa Thiong'o	Kenya	**A Grain of Wheat	Heinemann
 * 28) Niane, Djibril Tamsir	Senegal	Soundjata ou l'épopée mandingue	Présence africaine
 * 29) Nyembezi, Sibusiso	South Africa	Inkinnsela yaseMgungundlovu	Shuter and Shooter
 * 30) Okigbo, Christopher	Nigeria	Labyrinths	Heinemann
 * 31) Ben Okri,	Nigeria	The Famished Road	Spectrum Books
 * 32) Ferdinand Oyono,	Cameroon	Le vieux nègre et la médaille	Editions Juillard
 * 33) Okot P'Bitek,	Uganda	Song of Lawino	Heinemann
 * 34) Pepetela	Angola	A geração da utopia	Dom Quixote
 * 35) Nawal Saadawi, El	Egypt	Woman at Point Zero	Zed Books
 * 36) Salih El Tayyib	Sudan	Season of Migration to the North	Heinemann
 * 37) Williams Sassine,	Guinea	Le jeune homme de sable	Présence africaine
 * 38) Sembene, Ousmane	Senegal	Les bouts de bois de Dieu	Le livre contemporain
 * 39) Senghor, Léopold Sédar	Senegal	**Ouevre poétique	Le Seuil
 * 40) Serote, Mongane	South Africa	Third World Express	David Philip Publishers
 * 41) Robert Bin Shabaan,	Tanzania	Utenzi wa vita vya uhuru	East African Literature Bureau
 * 42) Sony Labou Tansi	Congo	La vie et demie	Seuil
 * 43) Aminata Sow Fall,	Senegal	La grève des battus	Nouvelles éditions africaines
 * 44) Soyinka, Wole	Nigeria	Death and the King's Horsemen	Spectrum
 * 45) Tchicaya U Tam'si	Congo	Le mauvais sang - feu de brousse - à trisse-coeur	P.J. Swald
 * 46) Amos Tutuola,	Nigeria	The Palm-wine Drinkard	Faber
 * 47) Yvonne Vera,	Zimbabwe	Butterfly Burning	Baobab Books
 * 48) José Luandino Vieira, 	Angola	Nós os do Makulusu	[União dos Escritores Angolanos]
 * 49) B.W. Vilakazi,	South Africa	Amal'eZulu	Witwatersrand University Press
 * 50) Kateb Yacine,	Algeria	Nedjma	Le Seuil

Scholarship/non-fiction

 * 1) Samir Amin, 	Egypt	Accumulation on a World Scale	Monthly Review Press
 * 2) Ifi Amadiume	Nigeria Male Daughters, Female Husbands	Zed Books
 * 3) Mario de Andrade 	Angola Os nacionalismos africanos	Sa da Costa
 * 4) Anthony Appiah	Ghana	In My Father's House	Oxford University Press
 * 5) Amilcar Cabral,	Guinea-Bissau	Unity and Struggle	Monthly Review Press
 * 6) Rocha Chimera,	Kenya	Kiswahili, past, present and future horizons	Nairobi University Press
 * 7) Cheikh Anta Diop,	Senegal	**Antériorité des civilisations nègres	Présence africaine
 * 8) Efua Doorkenoo,	Ghana	Cutting the Rose	Minority Rights Group
 * 9) J.E. Casely Hayford,	Ghana	Ethiopia Unbound	Cass
 * 10) Paulin Hountondji,	Benin	Sur la philosophie africaine	François Maspero
 * 11) Samuel Johnson,	Nigeria	The History of the Yorubas	G. Routledge & Sons
 * 12) Jomo Kenyatta,	Kenya	Facing Mount Kenya	Secker & Warburg
 * 13) Joseph Ki-Zerbo,	Burkina Faso	Histoire de l'Afrique noire	Hatier
 * 14) Antjie Krog,	South Africa	Country of My Skull	Jonathan Cape
 * 15) Amina Mama,	Nigeria	Beyond the Mask, Race, Gender and Identity	Routledge
 * 16) Mahmood Mamdani,	Uganda	Citizen and Subject	James Currey Publishers
 * 17) Nelson Mandela,	South Africa	Long Walk to Freedom	Little Brown
 * 18) Eugene Marais,	South Africa	Die Siel van die Mier	J.L. van Schaik
 * 19) Albert Memmi,	Tunisia	Portrait du colonisé suivi de portrait du colonisateur	L'Etincelle
 * 20) Eduardo Mondlane,	Mozambique	The Struggle for Mozambique	Penguin
 * 21) Ezekiel Mphahlele,	South Africa	Down Second Avenue	Faber & Faber
 * 22) V.Y. Mudimbe,	Dem. Rep. of Congo	The Invention of Africa	Indiana University Press
 * 23) Kwame Nkrumah,	Ghana	Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah	Nelson
 * 24) Sol Plaatje,	South Africa	Native Life in South Africa	P.S. King
 * 25) Wole Soyinka,	Nigeria	**Ake: The Years of Childhood	Rex Collings
 * 26) Charles Van Onselen,	South Africa	The Seed is Mine	David Philip Publishers

National Magazine Awards
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