List of Famous people with last name Nwapa

Flora Nwapa

First Name Flora
Last Name Nwapa
Born on January 13, 1931
Died on October 16, 1993 (aged 62)
Born in Nigeria, Imo State

Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa, was a Nigerian author who has been called the mother of modern African literature. She was the forerunner to a generation of African women writers, and was also acknowledged as 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 at the age of 30 years 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.

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