Flora Nwapa, born Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa in 1931 and died in 1993, was a Nigerian author often called the mother of modern African literature. She became the first African woman novelist published in English by a British publisher with her debut novel Efuru (1966), which centers an independent-minded Igbo woman and her place within her community's expectations of marriage and motherhood. Beyond her fiction, Nwapa founded Tana Press in 1970, becoming one of the earliest African women publishers, and her work as a whole is noted for putting Igbo women's own perspectives and voices at the center of the story, at a time when African fiction in English was overwhelmingly written and centered on men.
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Did Flora Nwapa write about the Biafran war?
She drew on the Biafran war in Never Again (1975) and Wives at War (1980).
Yes. Nwapa was a member of the Igbo people and, when the civil war broke out, she moved to the breakaway province of Biafra. She took that experience into her fiction, notably the short story collection Wives at War, and Other Stories (1980) and the novel Never Again (1975). Both works emphasize the roles of women during the conflict, from patriotism to survival, from planning to taking responsibility.
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(13 January 1931 - 16 October 1993), was a Nigerian author who has been called the mother of modern African Literature.
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