Lopold Sdar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, politician, and

cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of
Senegal. Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the
Acadmie franaise

Okot
p'Bitek
Okot p'Bitek was a Ugandan poet, who achieved wide international
recognition for Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with the
tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up urban
life and wishes everything to be westernized

Wole
Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Babatunde Soyinka is a Nigerian
playwright and poet. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in
Literature, the first African to be honored in that category. Soyinka
was born into a Yoruba family in Abeokuta