Today in 1931, Flora Nwapa, The Mother of modern African Literature was born.

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Prof. Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa was a Novelist, she was called the mother of modern African Literature. 

She was the forerunner to a generation of African women writers, and the first African woman novelist to be published in the English language in Britain. She achieved international recognition with her first novel Efuru, published in 1966 by Heinemann Educational Books.