Flora Nwapa, a novelist, publisher, short-story writer, and author of children's books, is best known as the first female novelist in Nigeria and the first African woman to write and publish a novel in English (Ejuru, 1966). Although early critics of...

Flora Nwapa, a novelist, publisher, short-story writer, and author of children's books, is best known as the first female novelist in Nigeria and the first African woman to write and publish a novel in English ( Efuru 1966). Although early critics of...

An American scholar of Flora Nwapa evaluates her works in the context of Nigeria's literary and gender politics. Though Nwapa's works reflect a concern for the challenges faced by Nigerian women, her writing and her press were partly engendered because of her higher-than-average living...

An American scholar of Flora Nwapa's works narrates selected revelatory incidents that occurred during her ten-year-association with the Nigerian novelist and publisher. A visit to Nwapa's village, Oguta which also serves as the setting for her first two novels 'Efuru' and 'Idu,' provides some...