There is no problem in this world that cannot be solved. - Flora Nwapa

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There is no problem in this world that cannot be solved.

Flora Nwapa

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About Flora Nwapa

Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (13 January 1931 – 16 October 1993) was a Nigerian author best known as Flora Nwapa She 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 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 by Heinemann Educational Books. While never considering herself a feminist, she was best known for recreating life and traditions from an Igbo woman's viewpoint.

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Alternative Names: Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa • Mother of Modern African Literature • Flora Nwapa Nwakuche

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We are well, Efuru replied. It is only hunger. It is good that it is only hunger. Good health is what we pray for.

There was nothing in me when I was in school that made me feel I was going to be a writer. It was one of those things that just happened. I didn’t have the ambition to say, “Oh, Flora, you are going to be a writer, so work towards it

Efuru told him that she would drown herself in the lake if he did not marry her. Adizua told her he loved her very much and that even the dust she trod on meant something to him.