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What can a woman do? You say everyday. In the end, a woman does something, and even then still you look down on women. - Flora Nwapa
" "What can a woman do? You say everyday. In the end, a woman does something, and even then still you look down on women.
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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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Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa
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Mother of Modern African Literature
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Flora Nwapa Nwakuche
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If I am considered the doyenne of African female writers, the glory goes to the oral historians and griottes who mesmerized me with stories about the mystical powers of Ogbuide, the mother of the lake, my family members of industrious women and men who served as role models, as well as my penchant for service and the pursuit of excellence.
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