Flora Nwapa

Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa was born on 13 January 1931 in Oguta, the eldest of six children of a well-off family from the lakeside; her father worked for a British company, her mother was a teacher. Brought up in the mission schools of Oguta, Port Harcourt and Lagos, and nourished on Austen and Dickens, she studied at Ibadan and then at Edinburgh, taught English and geography in Enugu, and was then an administrator at the University of Lagos. Minister in the East Central State after the Biafran war, she then founded her own publishing house in Enugu, the first African woman to run one. She died on 16 October 1993.

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• NovelEfuruFlora Nwapa · 1966Literature