Today's Google doodle celebrates belatedly Nigerian novelist Flora Nwapa.
Florence Nwanzuruahu Nwapa (best known every bit Flora Nwapa) was a Nigerian Igbo author.
Acknowledged every bit the kickoff African adult woman novelist to last published inward the English linguistic communication language, Flora has been called the woman bring upwardly of modern African literature.
Nwapa's kickoff book, Efuru, was published inward 1966, a pioneering move every bit an English-language new yesteryear an African adult woman writer.
She is too known for her governmental move inward reconstruction afterward the Biafran War. In particular, she worked amongst orphans together with refugees who were displaced during the war.
She too worked every bit a publisher of African literature together with promoted women inward African society.
But inward spite of her landmark achievements inward African literature every bit a frontrunner for woman someone writers together with the critical engagements inward her books, she is less regarded compared to her manful someone contemporaries such every bit Achebe, Wole Soyinka together with John Pepper Clark.
While never considering herself a feminist, she is best known for recreating life together with traditions from an Igbo woman's viewpoint.
Nwapa's career every bit an educator continued throughout her life together with encompassed instruction at colleges together with universities both locally together with internationally.
She taught at such institutions every bit the New York University, Trinity College, University of Minnesota, University of Michigan together with the University of Ilorin.
Flora Nwapa died on sixteen Oct 1993 inward a infirmary inward Enugu State, Nigeria from pneumonia.
She was 62. Sumber http://www.dnbstories.com/