Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel Rotimi,best known as Ola Rotimi,was one of Nigeria's leading playwrights and theatre directors. He has been called "a complete man of the theatre –an actor,director,choreographer and designer –who created performance spaces,influenced by traditional architectural forms."
Nwazuluwa Onuekwuke "Zulu" Sofola was the first published female Nigerian playwright and dramatist. Sofola was also a university teacher and became the first female Professor of Theater Arts in Africa.
Abimbola Adunni Adelakun is a Nigerian writer.
Oyèrónkẹ́Oyěwùmí is a Nigerian gender scholar and full professor of sociology at Stony Brook University. She acquired her bachelor's degree in political science at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan,Nigeria and went on to pursue her graduate degree in Sociology at the University of California,Berkeley. Oyěwùmíis the winner of the African Studies Association's 2021 Distinguished Africanist Award,which recognizes and honours individuals who have contributed a lifetime of outstanding scholarship in African studies combined with service to the Africanist community.
Bolanle Awe is a Nigerian and Yoruba history professor. She became the Pro-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria in Nsukka. She has been called a Nigerian "intellectual hero".
Akin Odebunmi is a Yoruba Nigerian Professor of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis in the Department of English,University of Ibadan. Born on December 21,1967,he is a widely traveled scholar in pragmatics and intercultural studies.
Peju Layiwola, is an art Historian and visual artist from Nigeria who works in a variety of media and genre. She is listed as a "21st Century Avant-Garde" in the book Art Cities of the Future published by Phaidon Press. She is currently a Professor of Art and Art history at the University of Lagos and has been described as a "multi-talented artist." Her works can be found in the collection of Microsoft Lagos,Yemisi Shyllon Museum,Pan Atlantic,Lagos and homes of private collectors such as JP and Ebun Clark and the Obi of Onitsha.
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is a Nigerian author and educator,whose published work includes novels,poetry,short stories,books for children,essays and journalism. She is the winner of several awards in Nigeria,including the Nigeria Prize for Literature.
Adenike Osofisan,is a Nigerian professor of Computer science,who specializes in data mining and knowledge management. She is the first Nigerian woman to hold a Ph.D. in Computer science,a feat she accomplished in 1989. In 2006,she became a full professor at University of Ibadan,a promotion that made her the first African woman to become a Computer Science professor.
The Ìyálóde is a high-ranking female chieftain in most of the Yoruba traditional states. The title is currently within the gift of the obas,although Njoku asserted in 2002 that the process of choosing an Ìyálóde in pre-colonial Nigeria was less of a choice by the monarch,and more of the accomplishment and involvement of the woman to be so honoured in economic and political matters.
Olakunbi Ojuolape Olasope is a Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. She is an expert on Roman social history,Greek and Roman theatre,and Yoruba classical performance culture. Olasope is known in particular for her work on the reception of classical drama in West Africa,especially the work of the Nigerian dramatist Femi Osofisan.
Folake Oritsegbubemi Onayemi was a Nigerian literary scholar. She was Professor of Classics and served as Head of the Department of Classics at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. She was the first woman to be awarded a PhD in Classics in Nigeria and the first black woman to be a Professor of Classics in sub-Saharan Africa. She was an expert on comparative Greco-Roman and Nigerian literature,cultures,and mythology,particularly relating to the roles and representations of women.
Hear Word! or Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True is a play by Ifeoma Fafunwa. It is a collection of monologues,songs and dance based on true-life stories of Nigerian women’s struggle for equality,safety,and access to opportunities and leadership. The play has been seen by over 120,000 live audience members and positively reviewed by the New York Times and the Boston Globe.
Juliana (Julie) Omonukpon Omoifo Okoh is a Nigerian playwright,educator and feminist activist who was professor of theatre theory at the University of Port Harcourt from 2004 to 2017. Dealing with issues concerning women in society,her plays include The Mannequins (1997),Edewede (2000) and Closed Doors (2007). She was a Fulbright Scholar and in 2011 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Nigerian Theatre Artists (SONTA)
Victoria Okojie is a Nigerian librarian,academician and administrator. She was the first Registrar/Chief Executive Officer of the Librarians' Registration Council of Nigeria,a parastatal of the Federal Government of Nigeria. Okojie is also a past president of the Nigerian Library Association as well as a member of the governing board of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). She is a lecturer at the Department of Library and Information Science,University of Abuja,Abuja.
Lenrie Olatokunbo Aina is a professor of Library and Information Science,and former National Librarian/Chief Executive Officer of the National Library of Nigeria (NLN) Abuja.
Gbemisola Adeoti is a Nigerian Academic and poet. He is a professor of literature in the English Department at Obafemi Awolowo University. He is the author of Naked Soles which was at a time recommended by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board. Between 2011 and 2015,he served as the Director of the Institute of Cultural Studies,and he was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 2015 to 2019 at OAU.
Florence Onyebuchi Orabueze is a poet,writer and a Nigerian professor of English and literary studies. She was a former director of the Institute of African studies of the institution,the founder of the Grace Uzoma Okonkwo Foundation and a member of Nigerian Academy of Letters.
Gregory Nnamdi Nnabike Mbajiorgu is a Nigerian Associate Professor of Theatre and Film Studies of the University of Nigeria Nsukka. He is a playwright,poet,and established mono dramatist who had solo-performed his first play The Prime Minister's Son, many times both inside and outside of Nigeria. Greg Mbajiorgu is one of the earliest Africans to publish a mono drama;a source recorded him as the first,another source asserts he is the foremost solo dramatist in Nigeria. He has written other plays and poetry about water scarcity and mismanagement,climate change,and the environmental effects of plastics. With Professor Amanze Akpuda,he co-edited 50 Years of Solo Performing Art in Nigerian Theatre:1966-2016, and in 2023,he edited the 420-page book,The Power of One:An Anthology of Nigerian Solo Plays,which comprises sixteen works,including his The Prime Minister’s Son and,The Gadfly by Ahmed Yerima. Greg Mbajiorgu was also former Public Relations Officer (South) of the Association of Nigerian Authors.
Mnguember Vicky Sylvester is a Nigerian academic,author,and a Professor of Literature at the University of Abuja. She is known for literary criticism and gender studies. She is a member of the Nigerian Academy of Letters,Nigeria Academy of Education and a Fellow of the Association of Nigerian Authors. Mnguember Vicky Sylvester has served as a judge for the Association of Nigerian Authors literary prizes,Students in Free Enterprise and Children's Fiction Prize for the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Literature Prize.
