id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-31 Nigerian literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 1631 253 63 The languages used by authors in Nigeria are based in part on geography, with authors in the northern part of the country writing in Hausa.[1] Nigerian authors have won numerous accolades, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker. 1 Northern Nigerian Written Literature Northern Nigerian Written Literature[edit] Northern Nigerian written literature can be divided into 4 main periods. This period had many authors who produced books that dealt with theology, history, biography, maths, language, writing, documentaries, geography, astronomy, diplomacy and poetry. Muhammad ibn al-Sabbagh was a 17th-century scholar and author from Katsina, Northern Nigeria. Nigeria has produced a number of important writers, who have won accolades for their work, including Daniel O. Wole Soyinka was the first black African to win the Nobel Prize for literature.[4] Previously, Claude Simon and Albert Camus, born in French Madagascar and French-held Algeria, respectively, had won the prize. Categories: Nigerian literature ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-31.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-31.txt