Biography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
… 1958 -- and their stereotypical way of looking at African literature was silenced by Nwapa’s new way of truth-telling. … opening what is called “women’s space,” (Gibson, 2002) in literature, not only for African women writers, but for all … lectured about her own, as well as other types of African literature at a number of universities including Ames, …