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WRITER

Flora Nwapa

1931 - 1993

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Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (13 January 1931 – 16 October 1993), was a Nigerian author who has been 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Flora Nwapa has received more than 147,338 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Flora Nwapa is the 5,523rd most popular writer (down from 5,212th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Nigeria (up from 57th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Nigerian Writer.

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  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Flora Nwapa ranks 5,523 out of 5,755. Before her are Robert Coover, Philippe Delerm, Julio Llamazares, Frank Schätzing, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Peter Wohlleben. After her are Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Chabon, Janet Evanovich, Thomas Berger, Lucía Etxebarría, and François Nourissier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Flora Nwapa ranks 441. Before her are Heinz Fütterer, Bassano Staffieri, Frédérick Tristan, Nadezhda Konyayeva, Frank Ramsey, and Maria Gusakova. After her are Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Walt Davis, Romila Thapar, Anthony Newley, Gert Hofmann, and Charles Colson. Among people deceased in 1993, Flora Nwapa ranks 242. Before her are Jim Pollard, Roger Michelot, Mary Philbin, Rok Petrovič, Edera Cordiale, and Frithjof Ulleberg. After her are Helen Sawyer Hogg, Gert Hofmann, Evelyn Venable, Kenneth Connor, Marjorie Clark, and Vladimir Barmin.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, Flora Nwapa ranks 48 out of 236. Before her are Daniel Amokachi (1972), Abubakar Shekau (1974), Finidi George (1971), Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (1912), Sunday Oliseh (1974), and Victor Ikpeba (1973). After her are Israel Adesanya (1989), Stephen Keshi (1962), Uche Okechukwu (1967), Vincent Enyeama (1982), Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900), and Taye Taiwo (1985).

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Among WRITERS In Nigeria

Among writers born in Nigeria, Flora Nwapa ranks 6. Before her are Wole Soyinka (1934), Chinua Achebe (1930), Olaudah Equiano (1745), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977), and Amos Tutuola (1920). After her are Buchi Emecheta (1944), Ben Okri (1959), Cyprian Ekwensi (1921), Chris Abani (1966), and Sefi Atta (1964).

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