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          Flora Nwapa was born in January in Oguta, Imo State, Eastern Nigeria.

        1. Flora Nwapa was born in January in Oguta, Imo State, Eastern Nigeria.
        2. Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa, has been called the mother of modern African literature.
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        4. What Flora Nwapa's writing lacked in artistry, she made up for with the purpose and defiance which filled their pages.
        5. Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (13 January – 16 October ), was a Nigerian author who has been called the mother of modern African Literature.

          6. Flora Nwapa

          Nigerian writer and publisher (1931–1993)

          Flora Nwapa

          BornFlorence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa
          (1931-01-13)13 January 1931
          Oguta, Nigeria
          Died16 October 1993(1993-10-16) (aged 62)
          Enugu, Nigeria
          OccupationAuthor and publisher
          Alma materUniversity College, Ibadan;
          Edinburgh University
          GenresNovels; short stories; poems; plays
          Notable worksEfuru (1966)
          Idu (1970)
          This Is Lagos and Other Stories (1971)
          SpouseChief Gogo Nwakuche
          Children3

          Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (13 January 1931 – 16 October 1993), was a Nigerian author who has been called the mother of modern African Literature.[1] 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 f