Flora Nwapa

К сожалению есть только англоязычный вариант биографии, поэтому его и привожу.
Flora Nwapa (full name: Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa) was a female Nigerian writer, born in Oguata, Eastern Nigeria on the 13th of January 1931, and died on the 16th of October (Chinua Achebe's birthday) 1993. I wonder what she died of. She was actually of Chinua Achebe's generation. They both attended University of Ibadan, an appendix of London University then, it became a fully fledged Nigerian University after the Independence of Nigeria from the British in 1960. She later on travelled to England where she obtained a degree in Education from the University of Edinburgh. With her first novel Efuru published in 1966, which I am yet to read, she was proclaimed the first female African writer to publish in English. She is also credited with being the first African woman to establish two publishing houses, one specialised in Adult Fiction and the other in Children's Fiction. If Chinua Achebe is widely known as the father of African Literature, Flora Nwapa is considered to be the mother, as well as a feminist. Although, the latter she denied. Nonetheless, she once said in an interview that her interests lies on the rural and urban women on their quest for survival in a fast changing world dominated by men.

Flora Nwapa, an educator, novelist, business woman and Ogbuefi of Oguta (Anambra State, Nigeria) is one of the most respected female authors in Africa particularly West Africa. She is in the same category as Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka. The intensity of the characters in most of her novels keeps the reader concentrated on the 'reading'. This novel makes an excellent read for those that want to get an 'idea' of the Nigerian civil war and somewhat tells how important it is that there be no more war in Africa or any continent for that matter. One war is indeed enough no matter how you look at it. The ordinary man loses, propagators of the war leave behind the damaged country and move on to a supposedly better life 'abroad'