Ijeoma (an agent with the United Africa Company) and Martha Nwapa, a teacher of drama. Flora Nwapa attended school in Oguta, Secondary School at Elelenwo in...
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Efuru is a novel by Flora Nwapa which was published in 1966 as number 26 in Heinemann's African Writers Series, making it the first book written by a...
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galvanized the careers of African writers, such as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Flora Nwapa. Achebe sought to escape the colonial perspective that framed African...
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Gordimer referred to Achebe as "the father of modern African literature". Flora Nwapa began her career as a writer while teaching at Queen's School in Enugu...
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Idu is a 1970 novel and the second novel put out by Nigerian novelist Flora Nwapa. The book centers around Idu, a young woman in a Nigerian village whose...
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Flora Montgomery (born 1974), British actress Flora Murray (1869–1923), British doctor and suffragette Flora Nwapa (1931–1993), Nigerian author Flora...
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world, politics and the preceding generation of Mbari Club writers, Flora Nwapa and Buchi Emecheta. The emergence of the third generation of Nigerian...
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Goodreads. Retrieved 2023-04-23. Eustace Palmer, "Elechi Amadi and Flora Nwapa", African Literarture Today, no. 1, 1969, p. 56. Eldred Jones, "African...
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to by fans as "the most important female novelist from Nigeria after Flora Nwapa and Buchi Emecheta," according to Oyekan Owomoyela. She was born in Anambra...
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a Writer and Poet. Her book In the Blink of an Eye won the ANA/NDDC Flora Nwapa Prize for best female writing in 2008. She is also the Author of Don’t...
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Mandela's Ego (2006), Mating Birds (1986), Underground People (2002) Flora Nwapa (Nigeria): Efuru (1966), Idu (1970), One is Enough, Never Again, Women...
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buried in tomb G7102 of the Giza East Field Idu (novel), a 1970 novel by Flora Nwapa Idu Mishmi (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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Faleti (1930–2017) Toyin Falola (born 1953) Dan Fulani Bilkisu Funtuwa Flora Nwapa (1931–1993) Godspower Oboido (born 1988), poet and essayist Ukawsaw Gronniosaw...
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Obioma, "Feminism, Rebellious Women and Cultural Boundaries: Rereading Flora Nwapa and Her Compatriots", Research in African Literatures, 26.2 (1995), JSTOR...
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fortnight. They Lived Before Adam: Pre-Historic Origins of the Igbo won the Flora Nwapa Award for Literary Excellence and the Philis Wheatley Book Award at the...
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Zulu Sofola Prize for Women Writing. 2003 – First winner of ANA/NDDC Flora Nwapa Prize for Women Writing. 2004 – House of Symbols (along with two other...
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produced such works include Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi, Amos Tutuola, Flora Nwapa, and Buchi Emecheta. Publishing companies also aided in the development...
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(1995). "Feminism, Rebellious Women, and Cultural Boundaries: Rereading Flora Nwapa and Her Compatriots". Research in African Literatures. 26 (2): 80–113...
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classic thing of an African female novelist. I often get Ama Ata Aidoo or Flora Nwapa. I have a deep respect for Gordimer and what she stands for and what...
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James Macpherson, poet, collector and publisher of The Poems of Ossian Flora Nwapa, Nigerian author, educator and politician Kole Omotosho, Nigerian writer...
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(2007). Like Two Brothers. "Three Female Writers in Modern Africa : Flora Nwapa, Ama Ata Aidoo and Grace Ogot" (1972), Présence Africaine, 82:132–143...
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Emecheta (1944–2017) Helon Habila (born 1967) Elnathan John (born 1982) Flora Nwapa (1931–1993) Chigozie Obioma (born 1986) Ben Okri (born 1959) Ken Saro-Wiwa...
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of the ability to marry and have children. Helon Habila, Sefi Atta, Flora Nwapa, Iquo Diana Abasi Eke, Zaynab Alkali and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, among...
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(born 1937, Nigeria/US, ch) Nkem Nwankwo (1936–2001, Nigeria/US, f/p) Flora Nwapa (1931–1993, Nigeria, f) Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani (born 1976, Nigeria, f/nf)...
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theoretical physicist. Jimmie DeShong, 83, American baseball player. Flora Nwapa, 62, Nigerian author, pneumonia. Arnie Oliver, 86, American soccer player...
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Martina Nwakoby (born 1937), Nigeria Nkem Nwankwo (1936–2001), Nigeria Flora Nwapa (1931–1993), Nigeria Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani (born 1976), Nigeria Stanley...
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winning a writing competition at the age of 13. Her mother is a cousin to Flora Nwapa, the first female African writer to publish a book. In her first year...
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Waves, was nominated for the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. She won the Flora Nwapa Society Award for her 2006 book of poetry, Circles of Love. She is on...
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Saadawi (in books such as Woman at Point Zero and The Hidden Face of Eve), Flora Nwapa (Efuru), Ama Ata Aidoo (Anowa, Changes: A Love Story), and Buchi Emecheta...
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by the Yakubu Gowon regime. He had a daughter with Nigerian novelist, Flora Nwapa. Nzeribe was born into a well-to-do family and attended King's College...
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