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Adaora Lily Ulasi | |
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| Born | 1932 (age 91–92) Aba, Eastern Nigeria |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist and novelist |
| Notable work | Many Thing You No Understand (1970); Many Thing Begin For Change (1971) |
| Spouse | Deryk James (div. 1972) |
| Children | 3 |
Adaora Lily Ulasi // (born 1932) was a Nigerian journalist and novelist. She is said to have been the first West African woman to earn a degree in journalism.[1] As a journalist, she has worked for the BBC and Voice of America. As a novelist she wrote detective fiction in English, "adapting the genre of the crime thriller to an Igbo or Yoruba context".[2]
- ^ Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi, "Adaora Lily Ulasi: Juju Fiction", Africa Wo/Man Palava: The Nigerian Novel by Women, University of Chicago Press, 1996 (Chapter Four, pp. 183–219), pp. 183–4.
- ^ Lorna Sage, ed., The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, 1999