Flora Nwapa

Flora Nwapa (1931–1993) was a Nigerian writer whose novel Efuru, published in 1966, made her the first African woman novelist to be published in English in Britain. She wrote about Igbo women's lives from an Igbo woman's viewpoint, and later books such as Idu, Never Again and Women Are Different followed. She founded Tana Press in Nigeria in 1970 and became one of the first African women publishers, and after the Biafran War she worked with orphans and refugees.