Nigeria's influential authors and creative acts

Nigerians have authored many influential works of post-colonial literature in the English language. World renowned writers are Wole Soyinka, the first African Nobel Laureate in Literature, and Chinua Achebe, best known for the novel, Things Fall Apart.
Other Nigerian writers and poets who are well known internationally include John Pepper Clark, Ben Okri, Cyprian Ekwensi, Buchi Emecheta, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ken Saro Wiwa, who was executed in 1995 by the military regime of Gen. Sani Abacha.
Nigeria has a role in the development of West African highlife, afrobeat, and palm-wine music, which fuses native rhythms with techniques imported from the Congo, Brazil, Cuba, and elsewhere.
Some famous musicians that come from Nigeria are Fela Kuti, King Sunny Adé, Lagbaja, Sade Adu, Onyeka Onwenu, Osita Osadebe, Asa, Tuface Idibia, D'Banj and P Square.
In November 2008, Nigeria's music scene (and that of Africa) received international attention when MTV hosted the continent's first African music awards show in Abuja.
The Nigerian video-film industry is known as Nollywood, which is now the second-largest producer of movies in the world. Many of the film studios are based in Lagos and Enugu, with some of their influential actors like Omotola Jalade, Stephanie Okereke, Emeka Ike, Olu Jacobs, Genevieve Nnaji, Pet Edochie, Nkem Owoh, Desmond Elliot, Mercy Johnson, and lots and lots of them..