Appearing in 1966, Efuru was the first internationally published book, in English, by a Nigerian woman. Flora Nwapa (1931–1993) sets her story in a small vill

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Literature - Africa, Assam University, course: MA, language: English, abstract: The novel Efuru is written by Flora Nwap

The moving story of a group of Nigerian women which follows their lives from their schooldays together through the trials and tribulations of their adult lives.

'What we are all praying for is children. What else do we want if we have children?' These two sentences from Idu contain the basic theme of this novel set in a