The Official Flora Nwapa Society Website of the Iconic Author and Publisher,
Efuru
Efuru is the first internationally published novel written by a female African author.
The Flora Nwapa Society is an international organization affiliated with the African Literature Association. The primary goals of the association are to preserve and to promote meaningful research pertaining to Flora Nwapa and her creative production. The Flora Nwapa Society is committed to increasing awareness of and scholarship about Flora Nwapa as a major African woman novelist, dramatist, essayist, fiction writer, poet, publisher, politician and writer of children's books in the 20th century.
THE SOCIETY'S Story
From an excerpt by Marie Umeh ... "Since I could not give Flora Nwapa an Honorary Doctoral Degree physically, (I decided) I would launch The Flora Nwapa Society. Professor Ernest Emenyonu, Dr. Sabine Jell-Bahlsen and I were the founders. ALA members joined and we started the society in 1997 at the African Literature Association Conference, by creating panels around themes in her novels. The goal was to keep Flora Nwapa's memory alive in a number of ways. Firstly, by organizing panels on her creative corpus, and secondly by presenting awards to qualified scholars annually in her name at African Literature Association conferences. People would learn who Flora Nwapa was and what she did to earn the name, “Mother of African Women's Literature.”
FLORA'S Books
Women Are Different
One is Enough
Wives at War
The flora Nwapa Society Award
The process of selecting a candidate for the award goes thus:
Marie Umeh
Flora Nwapa Society
2022 - 2024 Award Recipients
The Society Award
In honor of Africa’s first female novelist and publisher of the Anglophone African world, The Flora Nwapa Award will recognize an individual who has distinguished oneself in writing and publishing in Africa or in the African Diaspora. The Flora Nwapa Award is also open to academics and to public figures, such as managing directors, politicians, foundation heads, journalists, filmmakers, and individuals from the world of arts and entertainment. Suggestions for the next Flora Nwapa Award are welcomed. Letters of nomination should include the full name and mailing address of the nominee, and a list of the candidate’s major works, accomplishments, and publications. A statement of 250 words is required. Letters of nomination should be addressed to Marie Umeh at the contact email below:
