Niger Delta Literature

Author’s List

Some notable works on the Niger Delta

Author: Tanure Ojaide
Book title: Labyrinths of the Delta. Year of Pub: 1986
Book Title: The Fate of Vultures & Other Poems. Year of Pub: 1990
Book title: Delta Blues and Home Songs. Year of Pub: 1998
Book title: When It No Longer Matters Where You Live. year of Pub: 1999
Book Title: Invoking The Warrior Spirit: New & Selected Poems. Year of Pub: 2000
Book Title: The Tale of the Harmattan. Year of Pub: 2007
Book Title: The Activist. Year of Pub: 2010
Book Title: Songs of Myself: Quartet. Year of Pub: 2015
Book Title: The Questioner: New Poems. Year of Pub: 2018
Book Title: Great Boys: An African Childhood. Year of Pub: 1998

Author: Ken Saro-Wiwa
Book Title: A Month and a Day: Detention Diary. Year of Pub: 1995
Book Title: Genocide in Nigeria: The Ogoni Tragedy. Year of Pub: 2005

Author: Nnimmo Bassey
Book Title: We Thought It Was Oil, But It Was Blood. Year of Pub: 2002
Book Title: I Will Not Dance To Your Beat. year of Pub: 2011
Book Title: Knee Deep In Crude – ERA Field Reports. Year of Pub: 2009
Book Title: To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction And The Climate Crisis in Africa. Year of Pub: 2012
Book Title: Oil Politics: Echoes of Ecological Wars. Year of Pub: 2016

Author: Kaine Agary
Book Title: Yellow-Yellow. Year of Pub: 2006

Author: Ekaete George
Book Title: Saints & Scoundrels. year of Pub: 2018

Author: Sophia Obi
Book Title: Tears in a Basket. Year of Pub: 2005
Book title: Floating Snags. Year of Pub: 2009

Author: Ogaga Ifowodo
Book Title: The Oil Lamp. Year of Pub: 2005

Author: Isidore Okpewho
Book Title: Tides. Year of Pub: 1993

Author: Ebi Yeibo
Book Title: Shadows of The Setting Sun. Year of Pub 2012
Book Title: Of Waters and The Wild: Poems. Year of Pub: 2017
Book Title: White Masks. Year of Pub: 2019
Book Title: Broken Tide. Year of Pub: 2023

Author: Helon Habila
Book Title: Oil On Water. Year of Pub: 2011

Author: Iquo DianaAbasi
Book title: Coming Undone As Stitches Tighten. Year of Pub: 2021

Author: Chimeka Garricks
Book Title: Tomorrow Died Yesterday. Year of Pub: 2010

Author: May Ifeoma Nwoye
Book title: Oil Cemetery. Year of Pub: 2015

Author: Vincent Egbuson
Book Title: Love My Planet. Year of Pub: 2008

*This is not a comprehensive list of all works on the Niger Delta; rather, it is used to provide examples. The list is updated regularly*

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