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The 2010 Garden City Literary Festival honored 50 Nigerian writers

[1] Daily Independent (Lagos), Copyright © 2011 Daily Independent. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). Don't know why only 48 of the 50 were listed.

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"Art of Africa: The 50 best African artists"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/art-of-africa-the-50-best-african-artists-426441.html Chosen by a panel

Oga Steve Abah, PLAYWRIGHT (Nigeria)
Chinua Achebe, AUTHOR (Nigeria)
David Adjaye, ARCHITECT (Tanzania)
Newton Aduaka, FILM DIRECTOR (Nigeria)
Mahmoud Ahmed, MUSICIAN (Ethiopia)
Ama Ata Aidoo, PLAYWRIGHT (Ghana)
Amadou AND Mariam, MUSICIANS (Mali)
Ayi Kwei Armah, AUTHOR (Ghana)
Les Ballets Africains, DANCERS AND MUSICIANS (Guinea) formed by Guinean choreographer Keita Fodeba
Biyi Bandele, AUTHOR (Nigeria)
Sokari Douglas Camp, ARTIST (Nigeria)
Boyzie Cekwana, CHOREOGRAPHER AND DANCER (South Africa)
Souleymane Cisse, FILM DIRECTOR (Mali)
Lueen Conning, PLAYWRIGHT (South Africa)
Tsitsi Dangarembga, AUTHOR (Zimbabwe)
Toumani Diabate, MUSICIAN (Mali)
Dilomprizulike, ARTIST (Nigeria)
Cesaria Evora, SINGER (Cape Verde)
Samuel Fosso, PHOTOGRAPHER (Cameroon)
Flora Gomes, FILM DIRECTOR (Guinea-Bissau)
Pierre Atepa Gouidaby, ARCHITECT (Senegal)
Mahamat Saleh Haroun, FILM DIRECTOR (Chad)
Delia Jarrett-Macauley, AUTHOR (Sierra Leone)
Salif Keita, MUSICIAN (Mali)
Khaled, MUSICIAN (Algeria)
Abdoulaye Konate, ARTIST (Mali)
konono No 1, MUSICIANS (Congo) with band leader Mawangu Mingiedi
Femi Kuti, MUSICIAN (Nigeria)
Faustin Linyekula, CHOREOGRAPHER AND DANCER (Congo)
Vincent Mantsoe, CHOREOGRAPHER AND DANCER (South Africa)
Zola Maseko, FILM DIRECTOR (South Africa)
Souad Massi, SINGER (Algeria)
Youssou N'Dour, MUSICIAN (Senegal) and band Super Etoile de Dakar
Kettly Noel, CHOREOGRAPHER AND DANCER (Haiti/Mali)
Idrissa Ouedraogo, FILM-MAKER (Upper Volta/Burkina Faso)
Tracey Rose, ARTIST (South Africa)
Ibrahim El Salahi, ARTIST (Sudan)
Ousmane Sembene, FILM-MAKER (Senegal)
Abderrahmane Sissako, FILM DIRECTOR (Mauritania/Mali)
Wole Soyinka, DRAMATIST, NOVELIST, POET (Nigeria)
Rachid Taha, MUSICIAN (Algeria)
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, AUTHOR (Kenya)
Tinariwen, MUSICIANS (Mali)
Rokia traore, MUSICIAN (Mali)
Binyavanga Wainana, AUTHOR (Kenya)
Zola, MUSICIAN (South Africa)
Athol Fugard, PLAYWRIGHT (South Africa)
K'naan, RAPPER (Somalia)
Oumou Sy, FASHION DESIGNER (Senegal)

Then a few artists the author reccommended though these were not all chosen by the panelists:

Kouyaté Sory "the inspiration behind African ballet"
Miriam Makeba music South Africa then Guinea
Oumou Sy fashion designer from Senegal
Chéri Samba painter from Congo

Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

[5] a juried list from the Zimbabwe International Book Fair

Literature for children

Meshack Asare, Ghana **Sosu's Call Sub-Saharan Publishers
Hayam Abbas Al-Homi, Egypt Adventures of a Breath Atfalna
Charles Mungoshi, Zimbabwe Stories from a Shona Childhood Baobab Books
Veronique Tadjo, Côte d'Ivoire Mamy Wata et le monstre Nouvelles éditions ivoriennes

Creative writing

`Abd al-Rahman Abnudi, Egypt al-Mawt `ala al-asfalt Atlas
Chinua Achebe, Nigeria Arrow of God Heinemann
Chinua Achebe, Nigeria **Things Fall Apart Heinemann
Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghana Anowa Longman
Germano Almeida, Cape Verde O testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo Ed. Caminho
Armah, Ayi Kwei Ghana The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born Heinemann
Bâ, Amadou Hampâté Mali L'étrange destin de Wangrin Union générale d'éditions
Bâ, Mariama Senegal **Une si longue lettre Nouvelles éditions africaines
Ben Jelloun, Tahar Morocco La nuit sacrée Seuil
Beti, Mongo Cameroon Le pauvre Christ de Bomba Présence africaine
Brink, André South Africa A Dry White Season Penguin
Bugul, Ken Senegal Riwan, ou le chemin de sable Présence africaine
Cheney-Choker, Syl Sierra Leone The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar Heinemann
Chraibi, Driss Morocco Le passé simple Gallimard
Coetzee, J.M. South Africa Life and Times of Michael K Secker & Warburg
Mia Couto, Mozambique **Terra sonâmbula Ed. Caminho
José Craveirinha, Mozambique Karingana ua Karingana Academica
Bernard Dadié, Côte d'Ivoire Climbié Editions Segiers
Dangarembga, Tsitsi Zimbabwe **Nervous Conditions Women's Press
Dib, Mohammed Algeria Algérie, La grande maison, L'incendie, Le métier à tisser Le Seuil
Birago Diop, Senegal Les contes d'Amadou Koumba Présence africaine
Boubacar Boris Diop, Senegal Murambi ou le livre des ossements Stock
Assia Djebar, Algeria **L'amour, la fantasia J.C. Lattes
Buchi Emecheta, Nigeria The Joys of Motherhood Alison and Busby
Daniel O. Fagunwa, Nigeria Ogboju ode ninu igbo irunmale Nelson
Nuruddin Farah, Somalia Maps Pan Books
Athol Fugard, South Africa The Blood Knot Simondium Publishers
Jamal al-Ghitani, Egypt Zayni Barakat GEBO
Nadine Gordimer, South Africa Burgher's Daughter Jonathan Cape
Bessie Head, South Africa A Question of Power Heinemann
Bernardo Honwana, Mozambique Nos matamos o cão tinhoso Academica
Chenjerai Hove, Zimbabwe Bones Baobab Books
Moses Isegawa, Uganda Abessijnse Kronieken Uigeverij De Bezige Bij
Jordan, Archibald Campbell South Africa Ingqumbo yeminyanya Lovedale Press
Joubert, Elsa South Africa Die Swerdjare van Poppie Nongena Tafelberg
Kane, Cheikh Hamidou Senegal L'aventure ambiguë Editions Juillard
Khosa, Ungulani Ba Ka Mozambique Ualalapi AEMO
Kourouma, Ahmadou Côte d'Ivoire Les soleils des indépendances Le Seuil
Laye, Camara Guinea L'enfant noir Plon
Magona, Sindiwe South Africa Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night David Philip Publishers
Mahfouz, Naguib Egypt **The Cairo Trilogy Maktabet Misr
Marechera, Dambudzo Zimbabwe House of Hunger Heinemann
Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho **Chaka Morija Sesuto Book Depot
Monenembo, Tierno Guinea Un attieké pour Elgass Le Seuil
Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo South Africa Indaba, My Children Blue Crane Books
Ngugi wa Thiong'o Kenya Caitaani Mutharaba-ini Heinemann
Ngugi wa Thiong'o Kenya **A Grain of Wheat Heinemann
Niane, Djibril Tamsir Senegal Soundjata ou l'épopée mandingue Présence africaine
Nyembezi, Sibusiso South Africa Inkinnsela yaseMgungundlovu Shuter and Shooter
Okigbo, Christopher Nigeria Labyrinths Heinemann
Ben Okri, Nigeria The Famished Road Spectrum Books
Ferdinand Oyono, Cameroon Le vieux nègre et la médaille Editions Juillard
Okot P'Bitek, Uganda Song of Lawino Heinemann
Pepetela Angola A geração da utopia Dom Quixote
Nawal Saadawi, El Egypt Woman at Point Zero Zed Books
Salih El Tayyib Sudan Season of Migration to the North Heinemann
Williams Sassine, Guinea Le jeune homme de sable Présence africaine
Sembene, Ousmane Senegal Les bouts de bois de Dieu Le livre contemporain
Senghor, Léopold Sédar Senegal **Ouevre poétique Le Seuil
Serote, Mongane South Africa Third World Express David Philip Publishers
Robert Bin Shabaan, Tanzania Utenzi wa vita vya uhuru East African Literature Bureau
Sony Labou Tansi Congo La vie et demie Seuil
Aminata Sow Fall, Senegal La grève des battus Nouvelles éditions africaines
Soyinka, Wole Nigeria Death and the King's Horsemen Spectrum
Tchicaya U Tam'si Congo Le mauvais sang - feu de brousse - à trisse-coeur P.J. Swald
Amos Tutuola, Nigeria The Palm-wine Drinkard Faber
Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwe Butterfly Burning Baobab Books
José Luandino Vieira, Angola Nós os do Makulusu [União dos Escritores Angolanos]
B.W. Vilakazi, South Africa Amal'eZulu Witwatersrand University Press
Kateb Yacine, Algeria Nedjma Le Seuil

Scholarship/non-fiction

Samir Amin, Egypt Accumulation on a World Scale Monthly Review Press
Ifi Amadiume Nigeria Male Daughters, Female Husbands Zed Books
Mario de Andrade Angola Os nacionalismos africanos Sa da Costa
Anthony Appiah Ghana In My Father's House Oxford University Press
Amilcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissau Unity and Struggle Monthly Review Press
Rocha Chimera, Kenya Kiswahili, past, present and future horizons Nairobi University Press
Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal **Antériorité des civilisations nègres Présence africaine
Efua Doorkenoo, Ghana Cutting the Rose Minority Rights Group
J.E. Casely Hayford, Ghana Ethiopia Unbound Cass
Paulin Hountondji, Benin Sur la philosophie africaine François Maspero
Samuel Johnson, Nigeria The History of the Yorubas G. Routledge & Sons
Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya Facing Mount Kenya Secker & Warburg
Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkina Faso Histoire de l'Afrique noire Hatier
Antjie Krog, South Africa Country of My Skull Jonathan Cape
Amina Mama, Nigeria Beyond the Mask, Race, Gender and Identity Routledge
Mahmood Mamdani, Uganda Citizen and Subject James Currey Publishers
Nelson Mandela, South Africa Long Walk to Freedom Little Brown
Eugene Marais, South Africa Die Siel van die Mier J.L. van Schaik
Albert Memmi, Tunisia Portrait du colonisé suivi de portrait du colonisateur L'Etincelle
Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique The Struggle for Mozambique Penguin
Ezekiel Mphahlele, South Africa Down Second Avenue Faber & Faber
V.Y. Mudimbe, Dem. Rep. of Congo The Invention of Africa Indiana University Press
Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah Nelson
Sol Plaatje, South Africa Native Life in South Africa P.S. King
Wole Soyinka, Nigeria **Ake: The Years of Childhood Rex Collings
Charles Van Onselen, South Africa The Seed is Mine David Philip Publishers

National Magazine Awards

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