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Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (13 January 1931 – 16 October 1993) was a Nigerian Igbo author best known as Flora Nwapa, who has been called the mother of modern African literature. The forerunner to a generation of African women writers, she is acknowledged as the first African woman novelist to be published in the English language in Britain and achieve international recognition,[1] with her first novel Efuru being published in 1966 by Heinemann Educational Books. While never considering herself a feminist, she is best known for recreating life and traditions from an Igbo woman's viewpoint.

Nwapa also is known for her governmental work in reconstruction after the Biafran War. In particular she worked with orphans and refugees who were displaced during the war. Further she worked as a publisher of African literature and promoted women in African society.[3] She was one of the first African women publishers when she founded Tana Press in the 1970s

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Happy PostHumous Birthday! It's your birthday. There are no tears today. Only sweet memories.

Rest on Mama.

madridguy:
Age with grace Mummy.

She died in 1993

Modified. Na too much koko with Kose cause am

stefanweeks:
She died in 1993

i pray that our present lazy ass women emulate something good from her and not all these yeye celebrities exposing their dirty boobs and nyansh up and down

I love her books...she's good
.rest on....

oldfoolnigger:
i pray that our present lazy ass women emulate something good from her and not all these yeye celebrities exposing their dirty boobs and nyansh up and down

lol