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Google Eulogizes Flora Nwapa On Her 86th Posthumous Birthday by Ipisi(m): 12:03pm On Jan 13, 2017
See How Google eulogized mother of modern African literature Flora Nwapa on her 86th posthumous birthday

Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa was a Nigerian Igbo author best known as Flora Nwapa, who has been called the mother of modern African literature.
Nwapa's first book, Efuru, was published in 1966, a pioneering work as an English-language novel by an African woman writer. It was followed by the novels Idu (1967), Never Again (1975), One is Enough (1981) and Women Are Different (1986). She published two collections of stories — This Is Lagos (1971) and Wives at War (1980) — and the volume of poems Cassava Song and Rice Song (1986). She was also the author of several books for children.

In the 1974 she founded Tana Press and in 1977 the Flora Nwapa Company, publishing her own adult and children's literature as well as work by other writers.

Nwapa's career as an educator continued throughout her life and encompassed teaching at colleges and universities internationally, including at the University of Ilorin, New York University, Trinity College, University of Minnesota, and University of Michigan,
She said in an interview with Contemporary Authors, "I have been writing for nearly thirty years. My interest has been on both the rural and the urban woman in her quest for survival in a fast-changing world dominated by men."

Flora Nwapa died from pneumonia on 16 October 1993 in hospital in Enugu, Nigeria, at the age of 62.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Nwapa



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