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Family / Re: The Year Is Gradually Coming To An End. What Is Your Achievement? by esau0007(m): 6:24am On Nov 22, 2023
We mean real achievement not prayer requests..
SpatialKing:
I'm still alive!
Relocated to the USA 🇺🇸
Completed my building in Abuja
Bought a car for my mum
Started my PhD in Statistics program
Welcomed a cute baby boy
Romance / Re: The Best Pre-wedding And Post Wedding Picture Of A Dedicated Nairaland Member by esau0007(m): 7:41am On Jul 07, 2019
stupidity:
That stuff you are holding in the last photo, what is it called? grin my eyes and corrupt mind just misinterpreted it.
its called ofo in igbo land,its kinda traditional thing in the igbo cultural setting but his own was just for fashion consideration

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Romance / Re: The Best Pre-wedding And Post Wedding Picture Of A Dedicated Nairaland Member by esau0007(m): 6:01am On Jul 07, 2019
More pictures

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Romance / The Best Pre-wedding And Post Wedding Picture Of A Dedicated Nairaland Member by esau0007(m): 5:56am On Jul 07, 2019
[color=#990000][/color]So beautiful

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Politics / Re: Akeredolu Will Secure 75% Delegate Votes, Says Campaign Group by esau0007(m): 5:51am On Jul 07, 2019
First to comment.shout out to my pipl

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Nairaland / General / Re: Between Betty Irabor And A Boy Begging At Onikan, Lagos (Photo) by esau0007(m): 7:20am On Jan 24, 2017
He lost like 50 sachets of water and u are givin him moni 4 one,omo he must meet 50 people jooo
Nairaland / General / Re: Between Betty Irabor And A Boy Begging At Onikan, Lagos (Photo) by esau0007(m): 7:19am On Jan 24, 2017
He lost like 50 sachets of water and u are givin him mini 4 one,omo he must meet 50 people jooo
Education / The Igbo Woman Google Is Celebrating Today by esau0007(m): 7:47am On Jan 13, 2017
Flora Nwapa
Flora Nwapa
Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa.jpg
Born 13 January 1931
Oguta
Died 16 October 1993 (aged 62)
Enugu
Nationality Nigerian
Genres Novels; Short stories
Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (13 January 1931 – 16 October 1993) was a Nigerian author best known as Flora Nwapa, who has been called the mother of modern African literature. The forerunner to a generation of African women writers, she is acknowledged as the first African woman novelist to be published in the English language in Britain and achieve international recognition,[1] with her first novel Efuru being published in 1966 by Heinemann Educational Books. While never considering herself a feminist, she is best known for recreating life and traditions from an Igbo woman's viewpoint.[2]

Nwapa also is known for her governmental work in reconstruction after the Biafran War. In particular she worked with orphans and refugees who were displaced during the war. Further she worked as a publisher of African literature and promoted women in African society.[3] She was one of the first African women publishers when she founded Tana Press in the 1970s.

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Early years and education Edit
Born in Oguta,[4] in south-eastern Nigeria, eldest of the six children of Christopher Ijeoma (an agent with the United Africa Company) and Martha Nwapa, a teacher of drama,[5] Flora Nwapa attended school in Oguta, Port Harcourt and Lagos. She went on to earn a BA degree from University College, Ibadan, in 1957. She then went to Scotland, where she earned a Diploma in Education from Edinburgh University in 1958.

Teaching and public service Edit
After returning to Nigeria, Nwapa joined the Ministry of Education in Calabar as an Education Officer until 1959. She then took employment as a teacher at Queen's School in Enugu, where she taught English and Geography from 1969 to 1971. She continued to work in both education and the civil service in several positions, including as Assistant Registrar, University of Lagos (1962–67).[3] After the Nigerian civil war of 1967–70, she accepted cabinet office as Minister of Health and Social Welfare in East Central State (1970–71), and subsequently as Minister of Lands, Survey and Urban Development (1971–74).[2]

Writing and publishing Edit
Nwapa's first book, Efuru, was published in 1966, a pioneering work as an English-language novel by an African woman writer.[2] It was followed by the novels Idu (1967), Never Again (1975), One is Enough (1981) and Women Are Different (1986). She published two collections of stories — This Is Lagos (1971) and Wives at War (1980) — and the volume of poems Cassava Song and Rice Song (1986). She was also the author of several books for children.

In the 1974 she founded Tana Press and in 1977 the Flora Nwapa Company, publishing her own adult and children's literature as well as work by other writers.[2][6] She gave as one of objectives: "to inform and educate women all over the world, especially Feminists (both with capital F and small f) about the role of women in Nigeria, their economic independence, their relationship with their husbands and children, their traditional beliefs and their status in the community as a whole".[1][7] Tana has been described as "the first press run by a woman and targeted at a largely female audience. A project far beyond its time at a period when no one saw African women as constituting a community of readers or a book-buying demographic."[8]

Later years Edit
Nwapa's career as an educator continued throughout her life and encompassed teaching at colleges and universities internationally, including at New York University, Trinity College[disambiguation needed], University of Minnesota, University of Michigan, and University of Ilorin. She said in an interview with Contemporary Authors, "I have been writing for nearly thirty years. My interest has been on both the rural and the urban woman in her quest for survival in a fast-changing world dominated by men."[2]

Flora Nwapa died from pneumonia on 16 October 1993 in hospital in Enugu, Nigeria, at the age of 62.

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Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Npower Edo State Let's Meet Here by esau0007(m): 10:22pm On Jan 04, 2017
Supplanter:
I'm happy to announce to all Npower volunteers living in Edo state that a page for Npower volunteers has been created on facebook. Here is the address www.facebook.com/npoweredo.edo feel free to join and stay updated with the latest happenings about the Npower programme.
npower na scam have u asked itself wen at Gona be paid u dey here dey create group wen Dempsey dem Don pay u
Celebrities / Re: MTVEMAs Strips Wizkid Off His Best African Act Award To Alikiba, Fans React by esau0007(m): 4:39pm On Nov 11, 2016
GudluckIBB:
How can they do this to a whole star Boy?

I Finger Linda Ikeji on this one, she is behind it grin
dis one wey u dey finger linda hmmmmmm if u remove ur hand dont 4get to wash am with hypooo ooo i don talk my own oo
Fashion / Re: Mr Nairaland 2016 - Grand Finale by esau0007(m): 1:34pm On Aug 06, 2016
i vote iam kingzleeeeeeeee

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Travel / Re: Danfo Slams A Skater On Highway In Lagos by esau0007(m): 4:13pm On Jul 05, 2016
ahnie:
Hope he did not DEAD!
hope he didnt deaded kiss angry grin grin grin grin grin grin grin
Celebrities / Re: My Wife Said I Look Like Tekno!hope She Is Not Deceiving Me? by esau0007(m): 12:38pm On Jan 16, 2016
NO BE ONLY TEKNO U RESEMBLE YOU EVEN RESEMBLE NOKIA AND SAMSUNG
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Sahara Group 2015 Graduate Aptitude Test by esau0007(m): 3:50pm On Oct 03, 2015
please brodas nd sisters in the house can anybody help me with the softcopy of dragnet past question,here is my mail ezeboikenna@gmail.com.thansk
Politics / Re: Akpabio Hospitalised In Abuja After Own Car Disobeyed Traffic Light by esau0007(m): 4:00pm On Aug 31, 2015
I PRAY HE GETS WELL SOON.FOR THE FACT THAT HE FLOUTED THE TRAFFIC RULE DOESSNT MEAN HE SHOULD DIES.SOME NAIRALANDERS AR SADISTIC,DEMONIC AND IDIOTIC IN NATURE.WA IS BAD IS BAD NO MATA WO IT HAPPENS TO.WE SHOULD LEARN HOW TO SYMPATHIZE WITH OUR FELLOW HUMAN IN THE
TIME OF MISFORTUNE
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Jobs/vacancies Section Chatroom by esau0007(m): 5:57pm On Aug 28, 2015
I SERIOUSLY NEED A BANKING JOB AROUND ANAMBRA,ENUGU AND DELTA.ANY BODY WITH CONTACT INFORMATION SHOULD PLEASE HELP ME.MY EMAIL IS ezeboikenna@gmail.com.thank u very much as u help a broda.god bless u
Politics / Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by esau0007(m): 9:18am On Aug 03, 2015
shugacaneman:
LUX FIAT
lux fiat u ar lost look 4 primusssssss c.k.c
Education / Re: Final Year Student Abandons Medicine For Mass Comm 2 weeks before final exam by esau0007(m): 9:46am On Jul 02, 2015
JewelRegi:
May dat was not his destiny or God's plan for his life. But wht took him so long to realize
all iz wellllllllll
Politics / Re: President Buhari Leaving Abuja For G7 Summit In Germany. Photos by esau0007(m): 5:08pm On Jun 07, 2015
Sometimes, it is good to see the fire first.
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Politics / Re: How First Lady ‘influenced Rivers Governorship Poll For Wike’ by esau0007(m): 1:15pm On Apr 14, 2015
juman:
What an illiterate woman!

PDP rigged election in a state where they should have won election with landslide success in a free and fair election. What a big surprise!

The woman is as clueless as obasanjo. Obasanjo also rigged like that.
u ar d most stupid person i hv ever seen; how can u swallow evri tin u read hook,line nd sinker witout even thinkin wit ur damaged brain if wat dey is actuali true.veracity of info shuld alwazs be checked to forestall its mendacity
Politics / Re: Fayose’s Victory: Gunshots, Wild Jubilation In Ekiti by esau0007(m): 12:56pm On Apr 14, 2015
chipmunkey:
Why the gun shots?
wia is ur brainz hmmmmm nawaaooo
Crime / Re: Horror: Lagos Student Stabs Father In The Eye Over Christmas Clothes. by esau0007(m): 10:43am On Dec 19, 2014
reknownedmarsk:
tongue ;Dspace reserved till JONATHAN leaves aso villa tongue
then mr man u hv to wait 4 anoda 4yrs bro afftr wc u cm bak nd clear d cobwebs in ur reserved space

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Politics / Re: “There Is So Much Eagerness To Discredit Us"- Nigerian Military by esau0007(m): 4:27pm On Sep 30, 2014
nice job my soldiers gad blesssssss

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