The country’s young artists are drawing admirers.

Born in 1917 in Onitsha in Nigeria to a sculptor father and a successful merchant mother, Enwonwu had a gift for the arts from a young age.

A look at the photographer's famed pictures of gravity-defying hair.

Nigeria's best-known cultural exports – juju, Afrobeat and fuji music – barely scratch the surface of the vast and vibrant cultural topography of the nation.

The Nigerian musicians who are changing the sound of global pop.

Beyoncé's "The Lion King: The Gift" is informed by afrobeats, a genre created decades ago.

Nigeria has long been a vibrant literary hub, home to prominent and widely celebrated writers like the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri and, more recently, the novelists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lola Shoneyin and Helon Habila.

Chinua Achebe, the author of one of the enduring works of modern African literature, sees postcolonial cultures taking shape story by story.