Flora Nwapa

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Quotes

• “What can a woman do? You say everyday. In the end, a woman does something, and even then still you look down on women.”
• “We are well, Efuru replied. It is only hunger. It is good that it is only hunger. Good health is what we pray for.”
• “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.”
• “I don’t think that I’m a radical feminist,””
• “I don’t even accept that I’m a feminist. I accept that I’m an ordinary woman who is writing about what she knows. I try to project the image of women positively.”
• “Women have always been powerful and striven to achieve financial independence. I wanted a politics that fought for expanding and nurturing the power that women already had. It is not that I believed that there was no such thing as gender inequality. I just did not want to see a woman as a victim but as someone who was always enterprising and looking for ways to undermine the systems of power that tried to put her down.”

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Key facts

Born

Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa , ( 1931-01-13 ) 13 January 1931, Oguta , Nigeria

Died

16 October 1993 (1993-10-16) (aged 62), Enugu , Nigeria

Occupation

Author and publisher

Alma mater

University College, Ibadan ; , Edinburgh University

Genres

Novels; short stories; poems; plays

Notable works

Efuru (1966), Idu (1970), This Is Lagos and Other Stories (1971)

Spouse

Chief Gogo Nwakuche

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Image

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