Nigerian authors

I've never been to Nigeria. Honestly I am not even thinking of going to Nigeria, and it is on my list of countries where I am unlikely to agree to go to work...and there are only three countries on that list - I am not counting the countries where I will not work because it is illegal for a woman to work there or travel there without a male relative.

I am doing the Expanding Horizons reading challenge and I am considering of doing it with just Nigerian authors... though I can't help but wonder if this does not do the exact opposite to what the original intent of the challenge was, ie. narrow my reading down as oppose to expand it, but since I had never before read any Nigerian authors I think it might still be in the intended spirit.
I had thought about it, then abandoned the idea but I just read Veronica's review of "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and I started looking around for other Nigerian authors. As it turns out Wikipedia has a page for Nigeria authors.

Here is a copy of their list that I have changed a little. I've put the name so that they are all written with the last name first, and I have added year of birth if I could find it, in a few cases years they were writing instead and in a some cases comments relevant to me.

• Abani Chris (1966)
• Adedeji Remi (1937)
• Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi (1977)
• Afolabi S. A. (1966)
• Ajayi Tolu (1946)
• Akinwunmi Isola was writing in the 60s)
• Amadiume Ifi (1947)
• Babafemi Badejo (1955)
• Barrett A. Igoni (1979)
• Bode Sowande (1948)
• Clark John Pepper (J.P. Clark Bekederemo) (1935)
• Dibia Jude (1975)
• Diego Odoh Okenyodo
• Ekwensi Cyprian (1921)
• Equiano Olaudah (1745)
• Esehagu Rosemary (1981)
• Fagunwa Daniel O. (1903)
• Faleti Adebayo
• Femi Osofisan (1946)
• Festus Iyayi (1947)
• Fulani Dan (writing since 1981)
• Ihekwaba Rita (1966)
• Imam Abubakar (1911)
• Itunu-Abitogun Oyinlade (writing in 2001)
• Iweala Uzodinma (1982)
• Munonye John (1929)
• Johnson Samuel (1846)
• Lagunju Abimbola (1960)
• Maimo Sankie (born in Cameroon, writing in 1955)
• Mama Amina (1958)
• Oguine Ike (first novel 2000)
• Ogundipe Molara (writing in 1995, feminist)
• Ohanyido Francis (1970)
• Okonkwo Rudolf Ogoo
• Okri Ben (1959)
• Okwelume Obinna Charles (1981)
• Omotosho Kole (1943)
• Onuora Nzekwu (1928)
• Rotimi Ola (1938)
• Saro-Wiwa Ken (1941)
• Solarin Tai (1922)
• Soyinka Wole (1934, Nobel Prize in Literature)
• Tanure Ojaide (1948)
• Tutuola Amos (1920)
• Udechukwu Ada (1960)
• Unigwe Chika (1974)
• Wiwa Ken (1968)

So now of course I am again considering keeping the challenge to Nigerian authors. I didn't picked my list before starting, so up until the end I can change my mind.