Flora Nwapa | |
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| Born | Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa 13 January 1931 Oguta, Nigeria |
| Died | 16 October 1993 (aged 62) Enugu, Nigeria |
| Occupation | Author and publisher |
| Alma mater | University College, Ibadan; Edinburgh University |
| Genres | Novels; short stories; poems; plays |
| Notable works | Efuru (1966) Idu (1970) This Is Lagos and Other Stories (1971) |
| Spouse | Chief Gogo Nwakuche |
| Children | 3 |
Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (13 January 1931 – 16 October 1993), was a Nigerian author who has been called the mother of modern African Literature.[1] She was the forerunner to a generation of African women writers, and the first African woman novelist to be published in the English language in Britain. She achieved international recognition with her first novel Efuru, published in 1966 by Heinemann Educational Books. While never considering herself a feminist, she was best known for recreating life and traditions from an Igbo woman's viewpoint.[2]
She published African literature and promoted women in African society.[3] She was one of the first African women publishers when she founded Tana Press in Nigeria in 1970. Nwapa engaged in governmental work in reconstruction after the Biafran War; in particular, she worked with orphans and refugees who were displaced during the war.[4]
- ^ "Flora Nwapa: Mother of modern African Literature – DW – 05/15/2020". dw.com. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
- ^ Leisure, Susan "Nwapa, Flora", Postcolonial Studies @ Emory, Emory University, Fall 1996.
- ^ Literary Encyclopedia
- ^ Agbo, Njideka (13 January 2019). "Florence Nwapa: The Mother of African Literature". The Guardian. Nigeria. Retrieved 22 May 2022.