Appearing in , Efuru was the first internationally published book, in English, by a Nigerian woman. Flora Nwapa (–) sets her story in a small village in colonial West Africa as she describes the youth, marriage, motherhood, and eventual personal epiphany of a young woman in rural Nigeria. The respected and beautiful protagonist, an independent-minded Ibo woman named Efuru, wishes to be a . Appearing in , Efuru was the first internationally published book, in English, by a Nigerian woman. Flora Nwapa () sets her story in a small village in colonial West Africa as she describes the youth, marriage, motherhood, and eventual personal epiphany of a young woman in rural Nigeria/5(32). · Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (13 January – 16 October ) was a Nigerian author best known as Flora Nwapa. Her novel Efuru () is among the first English-language novels by a woman from Africa. Nwapa, born in Oguta, was /5.
has undervalued or neglected African women writers by considering Flora Nwapa's three best-known novels, analyzing from a feminist perspective what choice and discovery mean for Nwapa's female characters in Efuru (), Idu (), and One is Enough (). Efuru is the first novel published in English by a Nigerian woman. As a result, in. Flora Nwapa's Efuru published in As regards colonial, environmental, and historical context, Efuru is set in the Igbo village of Oguta in. the s, almost midway between the Igbo women. Buy Efuru. by Flora Nwapa online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at $ Shop now.
Efuru is an astute commentary on the ways women navigated cultural norms in colonial Nigeria. The novel was Flora Nwapa’s debut and the first to be published internationally from a Nigerian female author. Published in , it follows the eponymous protagonist as she and other female characters bend, twists, implement and break gender norms in the small lakeside town of Oguta. Overview. This edition marks the 50th anniversary of Efuru, the first novel by Nigeria's Flora Nwapa. Originally published by Heinemann in London in Efuru is the first novel by a female African author published internationally. It has presented the first narration of an African village woman's life and plight from an insider's female perspective. Efuru is a novel by Flora Nwapa which was published in as number 26 in Heinemann's African Writers Series, making it the first book written by a Nigerian woman, in fact, any African woman, to be published internationally. The book is about Efuru, an Igbo woman who lives in a small village in colonial West Africa. Throughout the story, Efuru wishes to be a mother, though she is an independent-minded woman and respected for her trading ability.
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