[{"n": "Mariama Bâ", "u": "/e/african-and-african-diaspora-writers/mariama-b/", "s": "Senegalese author and feminist whose novels explore women's struggles in postcolonial Africa."}, {"n": "Marlon James (novelist)", "u": "/e/african-and-african-diaspora-writers/marlon-james-novelist/", "s": "Jamaican novelist and Man Booker Prize winner"}, {"n": "Maryse Condé", "u": "/e/african-and-african-diaspora-writers/maryse-cond/", "s": "Novelist, critic, and playwright from Guadeloupe, best known for Ségou."}, {"n": "Mohamed Choukri", "u": "/e/african-and-african-diaspora-writers/mohamed-choukri/", "s": "Moroccan author of the censored autobiography For Bread Alone."}, {"n": "Muhammed Said Abdulla", "u": "/e/african-and-african-diaspora-writers/muhammed-said-abdulla/", "s": "Pioneer of Swahili popular literature and creator of the detective Bwana Msa."}, {"n": "Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o", "u": "/e/african-and-african-diaspora-writers/ng-g-wa-thiong-o/", "s": "Kenyan author and advocate for African-language literature."}, {"n": "Olaudah Equiano", "u": "/e/african-and-african-diaspora-writers/olaudah-equiano/", "s": "Enslaved African who wrote an autobiography recounting his capture and enslavement."}, {"n": "Paulette Nardal", "u": "/e/african-and-african-diaspora-writers/paulette-nardal/", "s": "The overlooked architect of Négritude who bridged Black worlds."}, {"n": "Peter Abrahams", "u": "/e/african-and-african-diaspora-writers/peter-abrahams/", "s": "South African-born novelist and journalist, settled in Jamaica."}, {"n": "Ralph Ellison", "u": "/e/african-and-african-diaspora-writers/ralph-ellison/", "s": "Author of Invisible Man, winner of the National Book Award in 1953."}, {"n": "Roxane Gay", "u": "/e/african-and-african-diaspora-writers/roxane-gay/", "s": "Writer, professor, and editor known for Bad Feminist and Hunger."}, {"n": "Kofi Awoonor", "u": "/e/african-and-african-diaspora-writers/kofi-awoonor/", "s": "Ghanaian poet and diplomat who carried Ewe oral tradition into modern African literature."}, {"n": "Keorapetse Kgositsile", "u": "/e/african-and-african-diaspora-writers/keorapetse-kgositsile/", "s": "South African poet laureate who bridged African and African-American verse."}, {"n": "Jack Mapanje", "u": "/e/african-and-african-diaspora-writers/jack-mapanje/", "s": "Malawian poet imprisoned without charge or trial."}, {"n": "Luís Gama", "u": "/e/african-and-african-diaspora-writers/lu-s-gama/", "s": "Self-taught lawyer and abolitionist who won his own freedom."}, {"n": "Margaret Walker", "u": "/e/african-and-african-diaspora-writers/margaret-walker/", "s": "American poet and writer of the Chicago Black Renaissance."}]