Flora Nwapa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Flora Nwapa

Nigerian writer

Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1931

Place of Birth: Oguta, Imo State, Nigeria

Date of Death: 16-Oct-1993

Profession: writer, poet, children's writer, novelist

Nationality: Nigeria

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (13 January 1931 – 16 October 1993), 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 is best known for recreating life and traditions from an Igbo woman's viewpoint.Nwapa is also 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.
Furthermore, she published African literature and promoted women in African society.
She was one of the first African women publishers when she founded Tana Press in the year 1970.
She was made the Ogbuefi in 1978, not a small achievement in the paternalistic societies of Africa where some men look upon women as objects of subjugation.
But with Flora Nwapa, even men doffed their feathered hats and gave her the salutes she truly deserve.