Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo
Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo is one of Nigeria’s leading female authors: a novelist, an essayist, an oral artist, a critic etc. She holds a PhD in literature from the University of Ibadan and has travelled extensively in Africa, Europe and the United States. She has adapted features of Nigerian folklore to write about contemporary issues affecting children in post-independent Nigeria. She has written five novels, more than a dozen children’s books, two plays and three collections of poems. Her trilogy, The Last of the Strong Ones (1996), House of Symbols (2001), and Children of the Eagle (2002) focuses on the identity of the Igbo (in Nigerian) woman in the traditional society. The major concerns in her collection of children’s stories is kids’ adventures, the problems of children upbringing, child abuse, child trafficking, human rights, the conflicts between children and parents in an increasingly urban environment etc. Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo’s works have earned her several awards including the WORDDOC short story prize in 1994, ANA spectrum prize (2001), Zulu Sofola prize (2002) for women writers, Flora Nwapa prize (2003) etc.
Bio prepared by Nancy Tata Kinyuy, University of Yaoundé 1, tata.nancy@yahoo.com
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