Flora Nwapa was the forerunner to a generation of African women writers, and the first African woman novelist to be published in the English language in Britain.
21 Facts About Flora Nwapa
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Flora Nwapa achieved international recognition with her first novel Efuru, published in 1966 by Heinemann Educational Books.
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Flora Nwapa published African literature and promoted women in African society.
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Flora Nwapa was one of the first African women publishers when she founded Tana Press in Nigeria in 1970.
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Flora Nwapa engaged in governmental work in reconstruction after the Biafran War; in particular, she worked with orphans and refugees who were displaced during the war.
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Flora Nwapa was born in Oguta, in south-Eastern Nigeria, the eldest of the six children of Christopher Ijeoma and Martha Flora Nwapa, a teacher of drama.
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Flora Nwapa attended school in Oguta, Secondary School at Elelenwa in Port Harcourt and CMS Girls School, Lagos, which later moved to Ibadan to merge with Kudeti Girls School and was renamed St Anne's School Ibadan.
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Flora Nwapa then went to Scotland, where she earned a Diploma in Education from Edinburgh University in 1958.
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Flora Nwapa had three children: Ejine Nzeribe, Uzoma Gogo Nwakuche and Amede Nzeribe.
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Flora Nwapa, was Nigeria's first Minister of Commerce and Industries, according to The House of Flora Nwapa, the documentary by Onyeka Nwelue.
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Flora Nwapa then took employment as a teacher at Queen's School in Enugu, where she taught English and Geography from 1959 to 1962.
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Flora Nwapa continued to work in both education and the civil service in several positions, including as Assistant Registrar, University of Lagos.
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Flora Nwapa was a visiting lecturer at Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education in Owerri, Nigeria.
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Flora Nwapa sent the transcript to the famous Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in 1962, who replied with a very positive letter and even included money for the postage to mail the manuscript to the English publisher, Heinemann.
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Flora Nwapa followed Efuru with the novels such as Idu, Never Again, One is Enough, and Women are Different.
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Flora Nwapa is the author of several books for children.
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Flora Nwapa gave as one of her objectives: "to inform and educate women all over the world, especially Feminists about the role of women in Nigeria, their economic independence, their relationship with their husbands and children, their traditional beliefs and their status in the community as a whole".
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Flora Nwapa's work was anthologized in publications ranging from Presence Africaine and Black Orpheus in the 1960s and '70s to Daughters of Africa in 1992.
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Flora Nwapa died of pneumonia on 16 October 1993 at a hospital in Enugu, Nigeria, at the age of 62.
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Flora Nwapa is the subject of a documentary entitled The House of Nwapa, made by Onyeka Nwelue, that premiered in August 2016.
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On 13 January 2017, Flora Nwapa's birthday was marked with a Google Doodle.