GRACE OGOT: ONE OF THE AFRICA`S FINEST WRITERS AND THE FIRST WOMAN TO PUBLISH NOVEL IN EAST AFRICA

“Eee, that man’s daughter was built; we can’t refuse to acknowledge what our eyes are showing us tho! Owiny has brought us such a beautiful girl; a girl who shines like the sun’s eye; whois as pretty as a copper ornament” ~ Grace Ogot, The Strange Bride (1989)“When you are frightened, don’t sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give you back your courage.”~ Grace OgotGrace Ogot, celebrated Kenyan writer of ethnic Luo origin, accomplished...

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FLORA NWAPA: THE FIRST NIGERIAN WOMAN WRITER AND THE FIRST AFRICAN WOMAN TO PUBLISH A NOVEL

"Mother, I cannot stay any more. A man said thathe has wept for the death that killed his friendbut he did not wish that death to kill him." ~ Flora Nwapa, Efuru (1966)Flora Nwapa, Africa`s first woman novelist, teacher, administratorProfessor Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (13 January 1931 – 16 October 1993) known to her native Nigerian ndi-Igbo people as Ogbuefi Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa-Nwakuche  and the world as Flora Nwapa was...

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BUCHI EMECHETA: ONE OF THE AFRICA`S GREATEST WRITERS OF THE CONTEMPORARY TIMES

"Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World." ~Buchi EmechetaAfrica’s most acclaimed female novelist, children's writer, screenplay writer, and autobiographer.  She is the author of  Second-Class Citizen (1974), The...

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EFUA T SUTHERLAND: AFRICA`S FEMALE PIONEER DRAMATIST, CULTURAL VISIONARY AND ACTIVIST AND "BLACK AFRICA`S MOST FAMOUS WOMAN WRITER"

Dr Efua Theodora Sutherland (27 June 1924—2 January 1996) was a celebrated Ghanaian playwright, director, children's author, poet and pioneer dramatist of international renown. She was also an teacher, scholar, an unapologetic Pan-African cultural visionary and activist of ethnic Fante extraction. Before 1965 when the First President of the Republic of Ghana, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the famous Pan-African leader called for the documentation of...

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