ABSTRACT
Flora Nwapa was born in 1931 in Oguta, eastern Nigeria, and died October 16, 1993, in Enugu, Nigeria. She was educated at the University of Ibadan, receiving her B.A. in 1957, and also earned a degree in education from the University of Edinburgh (1958). Nwapa was the education officer in Calabar in 1959 and taught English and geography at Queen’s School in Enugu from 1959 until 1962. From 1962 to 1964 she was an administration officer at the University of Lagos. She also worked for the Ministries of Health, Education, and Welfare; Lands, Survey, and Urban Development; and Establishments. She was the managing director of both Tana Press, which publishes adult fiction, and Flora Nwapa and Co., publishing children’s fiction, in Enugu, Nigeria. She was married to Gogo Nwakuche, an industrialist. They had three children.
