Chinua Achebe is Africa’s best-known novelist. Acclaimed for writing many of Africa's finest classics, including "Things Fall Apart" and "Home and Exile". This King of Nigerian literature has dominated both fame and prestige like no other African author and is widely regarded as one of Africa's most important critical thinkers and intellectuals

The Father of African literature, Wole Soyinka is the first African author to win the NOBEL PRIZE and along with Chinua Achebe and Chinweizu is considered one of Africa's foremost intellectuals.

Naquib Mahfouz, a truly legendary Egyptian who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Price for Literature.

Nigerian beauty Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is on the path to becoming one of Africa's newest legends in the literary world. With instant classics like "Purple Hibiscus" and "Half of a Yellow Sun", this brilliant young thinker has already won top honors including prestigious The ORANGE PRIZE.