NWAPA, Flora.

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Efuru. First edition, the author's first novel and the first book by a Nigerian woman to be published internationally. Efuru describes the life of its eponymous heroine, an independent-minded and unconventional woman living in a West African Igbo village. Nwapa focuses on the intricacies of Efuru's relationships with other women in her community, and her spiritual devotion to the female goddess Uhamiri.Flora Nwapa (1931-1998) was born in Oguta, a town in south-eastern Nigeria, and studied at the universities of Ibadan and Edinburgh. Her first book marked "the beginning of an Igbo dialogue on gender... Nwapa's insight lies in her representation of an economically independent female character who determines her own life without denying her Igbo identity" (Andrade, p. 98).

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