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Gardner, Susan. "The World of Flora Nwapa." Women's Review of Books 11, no. 6 (March 1994): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4021748.

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Berrian, Brenda F. "In Memoriam: Flora Nwapa (1931-1993)." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 20, no. 4 (July 1995): 996–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/495029.

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Jell-Bahlsen, Sabine. "Flora Nwapa and Oguta’s Lake Goddess." Dialectical Anthropology 31, no. 1-3 (June 12, 2007): 253–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10624-007-9017-6.

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Sanjo, Ojedoja. "An ecofeminist study of Flora Nwapa’s ‘Efuru’." AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities 7, no. 3 (September 10, 2018): 92–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ijah.v7i3.11.

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This paper identified the great contribution of Flora Nwapa’s Efuru to ideas of ecological consciousness, and environmental protection, using theory that interlaces ecocriticism cum feminist criticism. The methodology therefore involves the conversation or ideas on the images of women and nature in ‘Efuru’, the association between the oppression of women and exploitation of nature by male chauvinist, thereby enslaving the female and nature in the commercial market value. From an ecofeminist perspective, this paper discovered that Flora Nwapa inculcates her novel with a theme of feminine and natural liberation from domination and violence. Flora Nwapa foresees the establishment of symbiosis, in which there is no male oppression or environment exploitation.Keywords: ecological conscience, male oppression, ecofeminism, domination, interconnectedness
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Asiegbu, Perp’ St Remy. "Forces and Flaws in Flora Nwapa’s Efuru and Idu." AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities 9, no. 1 (April 28, 2020): 99–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ijah.v9i1.10.

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Considering her unique position as the premier African woman to publish a novel in English, given, also, her relatively artistic delineation of the African woman’s experience at a time when there is a dearth of female voice on that topic; when works of the male authors generally denigrate women, Flora Nwapa receives a commendable level of attention from critics all over the world. While most of the critics appreciate her for drawing attention to the strength and challenges of the African woman, others fault her for the absence of literary dexterity in her narrative. But for some critics’ romance with Uhamiri, not enough attention, relatively, has been given to the intrinsic and extrinsic forces surrounding Nwapa as a writer and how she manages these forces in plot development. Thus, this paper addresses this concern through the analysis of her foremost works, Efuru andIdu. Certain oversights are, also, noted some of which result from her deliberate or unconscious attempt to handle the forces that influence her. This is to draw attention to a writer’s conscious or unconscious struggle with forces, natural or supernatural, and, also, point to certain flaws, in Nwapa’s narrative, for the advancement of scholarship. The choice of Nwapa and her first two novels derives from the need to approach a relatively new topic from the beginning. Key Words: Forces, flaws, tradition, love, muse, influence.
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Abdelsalam Anwar Mohamed, Reem. "Breaking the Silence: Efuru by Flora Nwapa." مجلة الآداب والعلوم الإنسانیة 88, no. 4 (July 1, 2019): 919–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/fjhj.2019.176757.

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Ike, Onyeka. "The utilization of literary techniques in Flora Nwapa’s Never Again and Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun." EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts 7, no. 1-2 (April 15, 2020): 129–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejotmas.v7i1-2.9.

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This research investigates the utilization of literary techniques in two Nigerian historical fictions: Never Again by Flora Nwapa and Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie. Nwapa and Adichie are two creative writers belonging to two different generations of Nigerian writers. While the former is of the first, the latter is of the third generation. In their two different novels in focus, it is observed that they deployed diverse literary techniques in variegated fashions to achieve the same goal – creating fictional works that deal with the sensitive issues of the Nigerian Civil War. Using new historicism (NH) as its theoretical anchor, this study uses historical-analytic and literary methods to posit that no two creative writers apply literary techniques in an identical manner even when their subject matter is the same. Rather, the deployment of literary tools is usually a function of talent, training, idiosyncrasies, orientation and propensities of a particular author. It is, of course, the patterns of such deployments that create and confer identity and uniqueness to various writers across the globe, such that when a section of the work of a known author is read, his or her name comes to mind. Using New Historicism as a critical searchlight, this paper evaluates compares and contrasts the utilization of literary techniques in the two novels aforementioned. Both writers have utilized literary elements in various ways to foreground and portray the cancerous issues of corruption, ethnicity, nepotism and avarice – the issues that led to the unfortunate and devastating Civil War, and till today continues to limit the progress of Nigeria. Keywords: Literary techniques, NH, Never Again, Nigerian Civil War, Half of a Yellow Sun
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Cassiano, Tathiana Cristina. "História das Áfricas e Literatura: as mulheres igbos na escrita literária de Flora Nwapa." Revista TransVersos, no. 21 (April 20, 2021): 113–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/transversos.2021.54915.

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Por meio do diálogo teórico com intelectuais das Áfricas e de uma episteme que, oriunda de reflexões dos campos de estudos pós colonial e decolonial, permite emancipar os sujeitos da pesquisa enquanto produtores de conhecimento acerca de si mesmos e da realidade que os cerca, apresento neste trabalho resultados da pesquisa na qual propus construir interpretações acerca da vivência de mulheres igbos evidenciadas na escrita literária de Flora Nwapa, nigeriana e autora da obra Efuru. Dentro da perspectiva de articulação entre História das Áfricas e Literatura apresento possibilidades de utilização das literaturas africanas pós-coloniais na construção de conhecimentos sobre mulheres igbos e os processos históricos ocorridos na Nigéria da primeira metade do século XX, a partir de uma perspectiva africana.
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ya, M. Pri, and M. Angayarkan Vinayaga Selvi. "IGBO Women‟s Resilience and Politics of Survival in One is Enough by Flora NWAPA." International Journal of Humanities and Social Science 5, no. 2 (March 25, 2018): 43–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.14445/23942703/ijhss-v5i2p110.

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Arndt, Susan. "Paradigms of an Intertextual Dialogue: 'Race' and Gender in Nigerian Literature." Matatu 33, no. 1 (June 1, 2006): 199–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-033001030.

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In terms of Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of dialogism, the poetics of writing back presents itself as an intertextual dialogue between postcolonial literatures, on the one hand, and the colonialist mentality, its literary manifestations and their influence, on the other. Chinua Achebe is considered a classic of writing back, especially with his novel . However, in the context of literary and social processes of transformation, this showpiece of writing back has become a pre-text of differently oriented intertextual dialogues which likewise increasingly come under the heading of writing back. In this essay, I will take as my point of departure and discuss not only the narrow understanding of writing back in its original orientation, but also two more recent manifestations of this intertextual dialogue in Nigerian literature. With an emphasis on novels by Flora Nwapa and Akachi Adimora–Ezeigbo, I wish to focus on the intertextual dialogue between Nigerian women's writing and both Igbo oral narratives and writings by male Nigerian authors.
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Woode, Edward Winston Babatunde. "Alterity and hybridity in Anglophone postcolonial literatuare : Ngugi, Achebe, p'Bitek and Nwapa /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 2001.

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Komguem, Paule-Armelle. "Discours féminin ou féministe ? : une étude des oeuvres sélectionnées de Flora Nwapa et de Buchi Emecheta." Nancy 2, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005NAN21016.

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La problématique de ce travail de recherche repose sur la nature du discours qui émerge des oeuvres de Flora Nwapa et de Buchi Emecheta, deux écrivains d'origine nigériane. La lecture de One Is Enough et Women Are Different de Nwapa d'une part, et de The Joys of Motherhood et Second Class Citizen d'Emecheta d'autre part, véhicule en effet un message implicite et dévoile la femme noire africaine sous l'emprise d'un quotidien plutôt oppresseur. En resituant ces oeuvres dans les contextes socioculturel et littéraire africains, et en analysant les procédés rhétoriques et narratologiques utilisés par ces écrivaines, on parvient à donner une identité spécifique à la revendication féministe de leurs romans. Enfin, une analyse de la possible existence d'une écriture spécifique aux femmes chez Nwapa et Emecheta est effectuée à la lumière de la théorie de "l'écriture féminine" d'Hélène Cixous
This study examines the nature of the discourse to be found in the novels of Flora Nwapa and Buchi Emecheta, two Nigerian writers. On reading Nwapa's One Is Enough and Woman Are Different and Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood and Second Class Citizen, we find that they do, indeed, convey an implicit message and that they show the black African woman subject to rather oppressive daily circumstances. By placing these novels within their African socio-cultural and literary contexts and by analysing the rhetorical and narratological tools used by these women writers, a specific identity can be given to the feminist claims of their novels. Finally, the possible existence of a specifically feminine writing in Nwapa and Emecheta's novels is discussed in the light of Hélène Cixous' theory of "écriture féminine"
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Ferreira, Carla Maria da Costa. "A Demanda do Poder sob o Silêncio da Palavra em romances seleccionados de Alice Walker, Flora Nwapa e Buchi Emecheta." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/23034.

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Em estudos Pós-Coloniais tem havido um debate patenteado entre escritores Ocidentais e os do chamado “terceiro Mundo”, entre uma visão universalista dos direitos humanos e uma defesa das tradições culturais. A presente tese pretende discutir o referido conflicto em romances de três autoras: a Afro- Americana Alice Walker, e as duas Nigerianas (Ibo) Flora Nwapa e Buchi Emecheta. As sociedades Africanas são, na sua essência, patriarcais, polígamas e praticam circumcisão feminina. Por sua vez, a valorização da maternidade constrasta com o ênfase dado pelo Mundo Ocidental ao direito da mulher à sua própria realização e emancipação através de uma profissão. Os autores Africanos valorizam não só a tradição literária Europeia do Romance mas também a narração tradicional. Já os autores Afro-Americanos, que perderam, em grande medida, esses recursos tradicionais após a escravatura, só conhecem a tradição generalizada da literatura Afro- Americana. Alice Walker dramatisa a luta da mulher na sua victimisação para alcançar independência e voz. A autora confronta a exploração masculina sobre a mulher, quer na América Negra, quer em África, mas simplifica a complexidade das sociedades Africanas. Flora Nwapa, pelo contrário, baseia o seu trabalho na sociedade que a viu nascer, a dos Ibos da Nigéria, para criar perspectivas comunais em vez de individualistas. As suas heroínas demarcam-se dentro de uma comunidade tradicional. Buchi Emecheta, que fez carreira em Londres, critica as tradições Africanas mais abertamente, em especial a valorização da maternidade, mas mostra igualmente como o Colonialismo tem reforçado a opressão masculina sobre a mulher e limitado o apoio àquela na sociedade tradicional. As três autoras discutidas nesta tese partilham, contudo, um objectivo comum – reconstruir a subjectividade da mulher negra. Neste trabalho proponho-me demonstrar o modo como as autoras reclamam uma consciencialização por parte da mulher negra e, em geral, o poder do discurso.
In Postcolonial Studies there has been an argument between Western and "Third-World" writers, between a universalist view of human rights and a defence of cultural traditions. This thesis discusses the conflict in the novels of three women writers, the Afro-American Alice Walker, and the two Nigerian (Igbo) writers, Flora Nwapa and Buchi Emecheta. Traditional African societies are patriarchal, polygamous and practise FGM. Moreover, the valorization of motherhood stands in contrast to the Western emphasis on woman's right to fulfilment and empowerment through work. African writers draw on the European literary tradition of the novel but also on traditional storytelling. The Afro-American writer has largely lost traditional resources in slavery but can draw on the general tradition of Afro-American writing. Alice Walker dramatizes the struggle of victimized women to find independence and a voice. She confronts male exploitation of women in both black America and in Africa but simplifies the complexity of African societies. Flora Nwapa, in contrast, grounds her work in her own society, the Igbo people of Nigeria, to create communal rather than individualist perspectives. Her heroines assert themselves within a traditional community. Buchi Emecheta, who has made her career in London, more openly criticises African traditions, especially the valorization of motherhood, but also shows how colonialism has reinforced male oppression and limited support for women in traditional society. The three writers discussed in this thesis share, however, a common goal- to reconstruct black woman's subjectivity. In this work I propose to demonstrate how they reclaim black woman's awareness and, in general, the power of speech.
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Hadjitheodorou, Francisca. "Women speak the creative transformation of women in African literature /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08022006-130211/.

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Mahwasane, Mutshinyani Mercy. "Tsenguluso ya ndeme ya u thuswa ha nwana nga ndila ya Tshivenda." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1239.

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Ngudo ino yo sengulusa ndeme ya u thusa ṅwana ho sedzwa nḓila ya Tshivenḓa, sa izwi maitele aya a tshi khou ngalangala musalauno. Ngudo iyi yo sumbedza uri u thusiwa hu kha ḓi vha hone naho mathusele a hone o fhambana, sa izwi zwi tshi bva kha thendelano ya muṱa. Ho wanala uri kha muthuso hu shumiswa vhathu vhofhambanaho u fana na vhomaine, vhakegulu, vhafunzi kana ha tou rengwa mishonga ine ya shumiswa kha u thusa ṅwana. Ngudo yo dovha ya sumbedza mvelelo mmbi dza u sa thusa ṅwana na mvelelo mbuya dza u thusa ṅwana.
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Pape, Marion. "Frauen schreiben Krieg." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/15584.

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Kein anderes Thema hat die nigerianische Literatur so dominiert wie der nigerianische Bürgerkrieg, in dessen Verarbeitung sich verstärkt auch Autorinnen einmischen. Die Dissertation evaluiert 34 Texte von 16 nigerianischen Autorinnen - 12 Romane und 22 Kurzgeschichten - und analysiert sie als Gesamtkorpus, in dem die Texte miteinander und mit der Männerliteratur einen Dialog um den Bürgerkrieg führen. Die Autorinnen wenden bei ihrem "war talk" literarische Strategien wie "re-reading" und "re-writing" an, das Neu-Lesen, Fort- und Umschreiben der Texte und Diskurse des "Zentrums", durch die nicht nur die Blindstellen eines von Männern dominierten literarischen Diskurses sichtbar werden, sondern durch die auch der Prozess des Aushandelns der Geschlechterverhältnisse sowie des Krieges selbst erfolgt, seiner Ursachen, Auslöser und Folgen. Die Autorinnen stellen den Krieg als "sexuelle Unordnung" dar, als Geschlechterkrieg. Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass bei der Verortung der Perspektive der Autorinnen neben Geschlecht, ethnischer Zugehörigkeit auch andere Faktoren, wie Alter, Race, Grad der Distanz oder Nähe etc. berücksichtigt werden müssen, um vorschnelle Festschreibungen zu vermeiden. Hierbei spielen die Paratexte eine wichtige Rolle, in denen die Autorinnen sich persönlich zum Krieg äußern. Die Arbeit bewegt sich an den Schnittstellen mehrerer Disziplinen: Literatur, Historiographie und Geschlechterstudien. In der Einleitung werden die theoretischen Prämissen im Kontext von Krieg, Geschlecht und literarischer Repäsentation behandelt. Das 1. Kapitel ist dem historischen Kontext des Bürgerkrieges, einschließlich der Rolle der Frauen darin gewidmet. Im 2. Kapitel geht es um die Darstellung des Krieges, des Selbst- und Feindbildes sowie der Zukunft. Das dritte Kapitel handelt von der Beziehung zwischen Bürger- und Geschlechterkrieg, vermittelt durch das Medium literarischer Text. Die Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse und der Ausblick auf zukünftige Forschung erfolgt im Schlussteil. Der Anhang enthält ein vorläufiges Verzeichnis der gesamten Frauenliteratur über den nigerianischen Bürgerkrieg.
No other topic has dominated the Nigerian literature as much as the Nigerian Civil War and female authors increasingly interfere in its literary representation. The thesis evaluates 34 literary texts by 16 female Nigerian authors - 12 novels and 22 short stories - and analyses them as distinctive corpus whose individual texts are in a state of dialogue both with each other and with texts from male authors. The female authors use, in their "war talk", literary strategies like "re-reading" and "re-writing" of texts from the "Centre". On the one hand, these strategies enable them to make the blind spots of a male dominated literary discourse apparent/visible on the other hand, they facilitate the negotiation of gender relations and of the war itself, its causes, trigger points and consequences. The female authors represent war as "sexual disorder", as gender war. The study shows that in order to be able to locate an author''s perspective (and to avoid rash conclusions) it is essential to consider the different factors determining it - besides ethnicity and gender, also age, race, the grade of emotional involvement or distance etc. It is in this regard, where the paratexts play an important part, as in these authors express their personal views and comments on the war. The thesis is located at the interfaces of several disciplines: literary, historical and gender studies. The introduction deals with the theoretical backgrounds in the context of war, literary representation and gender. The first chapter is dedicated to the historical context of the Nigerian Civil War including the role of women. The second chapter looks at the paratexts, different representations of the war''s causes, the self-image, the enemy''s image and the future. The third chapter finally deals with the question how the relationship between Civil War and gender war is negotiated/conveyed through the medium of the literary texts. In the conclusion the results are summarized and prospects for future research are discussed. The appendix contains a preliminary bibliography of all literary texts on the Nigerian Civil War written by female authors.
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Gbenoba, Nwaka Verfasser], Sascha [Akademischer Betreuer] [Flohé, and Colin [Akademischer Betreuer] Mackenzie. "Standardisierter Vergleich mehrerer Wundtherapeutika sowie Etablierung eines semiquantitativen Verfahrens zur Wundkeimzahlbestimmung im porcinen Großtiermodell der infektionsbedingten Wundheilungsverzögerung / Nwaka Gbenoba. Gutachter: Sascha Flohé ; Colin MacKenzie." Düsseldorf : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1056036028/34.

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Nwana, Gukaah Brenda [Verfasser], Klaus [Akademischer Betreuer] Boehnke, Margrit [Akademischer Betreuer] Schreier, Christian [Akademischer Betreuer] Joppke, Rainer [Akademischer Betreuer] Tetzlaff, and Anna [Akademischer Betreuer] Triandafyllidou. "German-based African Immigrants' Transnational Sphere: Strategies of Incorporation and the Creation of Identity in an Expanded European Union : African Immigrants' Incorporation / Gukaah Brenda Nwana. Betreuer: Klaus Boehnke. Gutachter: Klaus Boehnke ; Margrit Schreier ; Christian Joppke ; Rainer Tetzlaff ; Anna Triandafyllidou." Bremen : IRC-Library, Information Resource Center der Jacobs University Bremen, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1087315573/34.

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Hadjitheodorou, Francisca. "Women speak : the creative transformation of women in African literature." Diss., 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26938.

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This study seeks to focus on the total female experience of African women and the reappropriation of a more authentic portrayal of the identity of women in African literature. In this dissertation, a chapter is devoted to each of the female protagonists in the three novels selected for discussion which are One is Enough (1981) by Flora Nwapa, Second-class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta (1975) and The Stillborn (1988) by Zaynab Alkali. Each chapter is named after the woman whose transformation it explores and the chapters are organised in a chronological sequence, that is, in the order that the writers of the texts were first published as authors of African literature, rather than according to the publication date of the text under discussion. The mode of treatment of the texts is dictated primarily by the womanist thrust and the central question of the way in which each of the female characters transcends the triple jeopardy of colour, class and gender to become a creative non-victim. The epithet 'creative transformation' in the title, therefore, describes the emergence of female characters in African writing who overturn the literary characterisation of the one-dimensional African woman who is a 'shadowy figure who hovers on the fringes of the plot, suckling infants, cooking' and 'plaiting' hair {Frank, 1987:14). The theoretical approach adopted for this study is largely of an eclectic nature but every effort has been made to establish a strong sense of the authenticity and credibility of the African woman's experience. In other words, the three texts chosen have been treated as both essentially social realist and African feminist texts read from a womanist perspective. The term ‘womanist’ is particularly valuable in the context of this study. The definition of womanism used in this study is that forwarded by critics such as Chikwenye Ogunyemi (1985) who states that ‘womanism believes in the freedom and independence of women like feminism’ but that ‘unlike feminism’, womanism ‘wants meaningful union between women and men and will wait for men to change their sexist stance’. The findings of this study show that the female protagonists achieve transformation not by reforming patriarchal systems, but by being creative and reappropriating their own identities within these often antagonistic systems. That is, the women achieve a measure of fulfillment and a strong sense of their own individuality within an imperfect context. Particularly in their individual responses to the experiences of marriage and motherhood in a traditional context and in their seeking an authentic identity, the characters in the novels studies create a framework that enables them to be the women they want to be and not the women society would like them to be: Amaka bears twins fathered by Izu, a Catholic priest; Adah – a mother of five – leaves a violent relationship to pursue a career as a writer and Li, after establishing an independent academic life, returns to her errant husband in the hope that they can rebuild their life together.
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Ramavhunga, Ndidzulafhi Esther. "Reflections on practices of u laya nwana: Towards an Afro-sensed approach." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1433.

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Inwi nwana, ni tou vha khundavhalai! (you child, you defeated your guide!). When a child behaved disrespectful to society, and is ill mannered, in Tshivenda, he/she would be referred to as Khundavhalai. Khundavhalai is made out of two Tshivenda words (Khunda + Vhalai which could be equalled to defeating + guides), meaning the one who defeated those who should guide him/her. The system and process of guiding could be equaled to u laya. Nwana is a child. The purpose of this study was to reflect on the Afro-centric practices of u laya nwana- guiding a child with particular reference to the Vhavenḓa culture. The decision to conduct this study was influenced by concerning incidences of behavior that could be associated with khundavhalai. The question was how did vhalai convey ndayo (The content and processes of u laya)? Bearing in mind a lack of documentation on these practices, I envisaged that the reflections would provide insights about how Vhavenda people guided children, with the hope that what was good could be blended with contemporary practices. The study employed a qualitative reflective paradigm. In-depth interviews were conducted with six elderly people who were key informants, to establish how u laya ṅwana was practised in the olden days. Olden days referred to a period before the 1980s. Key informants were asked to reflect on the processes and content of u laya ṅwana, and to identify positive practices that could be applied in the revival process of u laya vhana. Findings showed that u laya nwana was done throughout a child’s development, using different forms, such as songs, folklore, games, proverbs within a family context and communally through initiation schools(ngoma). There was a strong collaborative system between the families, traditional leadership, and key community figures who had the trust of the families and the royal household to run initiation schools. Participants were concerned that these practices have since vanished. A few that still exist are not without challenges. I got an opportunity to visit and observe at least two of those schools. The programme to revive ndayo was suggested, which encourages adaptive processes and collaborative effort between traditional initiation schools, families, communities, schools, churches, and relevant government departments.
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Books on the topic "Nwapa"

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NZEGWU, FEMI. Love, motherhood and the African heritage: The legacy of Flora Nwapa. Dakar: African Renaissance, 2001.

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Fossum, Bryan. Internship report: An internship at the Northwest Air Pollution Authority (NWAPA). Bellingham, WA: Huxley College of Environmental Studies, Western Washington University, 1998.

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Palaver: Geschlechter- und Gesellschaftsdiskurs in Nigeria : Kon/Textuelle Lesung ausgewählter Romane der Igbo, Autorinnen Buchi Emecheta und Flora Nwapa. Bayreuth: Eckhard Breitinger, Bayreuth University, 2002.

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Ofomata, Chinedum E. Nwata ahụla ọgụ. Enugu: Format Publishers, 2009.

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Ofomata, Chinedum E. Ihe nwata hụrụ. Enugu: Format Publishers, 2002.

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Okoro, Chukwuneke. O Ji Ihe Nwata (Welie Aka Elu). Owerri: Charismatic Forum, 2001.

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Ezeomeke, S. O. Nwata kwọọ aka: O soro ọgaranya rie nri. Nsụka, Naijirịa: Chuka Educational Publishers, 2007.

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Osuagwụ, Bertram I. N. Omeọkachie omenụkọ: Akụkọ ndụ pita nwana onye dere omenụkọ. Umuahia, Abia State, [Nigeria]: Ark Publishers, 1999.

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Flora Nwapa. Bloomington, Ind: Published by Indiana University Press in cooperation with the Ohio State University, 1995.

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Ebele, Eko, Ogu Julius, Oko E, and University of Calabar. Dept. of English and Literary Studies., eds. Flora Nwapa: Critical perspectives. Calabar, Nigeria: University of Calabar Press, 1997.

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Arndt, Susan. "Nwapa, Flora." In Metzler Autorinnen Lexikon, 392–93. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-03702-2_272.

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Arndt, Susan. "Nwapa, Flora." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_16662-1.

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Arndt, Susan. "Nwapa, Flora: Efuru." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–2. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_16663-1.

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Chuku, Gloria. "Nwanyibuife Flora Nwapa, Igbo Culture and Women’s Studies." In The Igbo Intellectual Tradition, 267–93. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137311290_11.

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Oed, Anja. "Nwana, Pita." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_15703-1.

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Oed, Anja. "Nwana, Pita: Omenụkọ." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–2. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_15704-1.

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Maharjan, Sudan Bikash, Finu Shrestha, Fayezurahman Azizi, Esmatullah Joya, Birendra Bajracharya, Mohammad Tayib Bromand, and Mohammad Murtaza Rahimi. "Monitoring of Glaciers and Glacial Lakes in Afghanistan." In Earth Observation Science and Applications for Risk Reduction and Enhanced Resilience in Hindu Kush Himalaya Region, 211–30. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73569-2_11.

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AbstractDuring the needs assessment in Afghanistan, the General Directorate of Water Resources (GDWR) of the National Water Affairs Regulation Authority (NWARA) (previously Water Resource Department (WRD) of the Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW)) emphasized that the compilation of comprehensive data on the glaciers in the country is a national priority.
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"FLORA NWAPA (1931-1993)." In Postcolonial African Writers, 369–76. Routledge, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203058558-40.

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Stratton, Florence. "Flora Nwapa and the Female Novel of Development." In Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender, 80–107. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003070924-7.

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Stratton, Florence. "Flora Nwapa and the Female Novel of Development." In Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender, 80–107. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003070924-7.

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Shropshire, David, and Jess Chandler. "Financing Strategies for a Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facility." In 14th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone14-89255.

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To help meet the nation’s energy needs, recycling of partially used nuclear fuel is required to close the nuclear fuel cycle, but implementing this step will require considerable investment. This report evaluates financing scenarios for integrating recycling facilities into the nuclear fuel cycle. A range of options from fully government owned to fully private owned were evaluated using DPL (Decision Programming Language 6.0), which can systematically optimize outcomes based on user-defined criteria (e.g., lowest life-cycle cost, lowest unit cost). This evaluation concludes that the lowest unit costs and lifetime costs are found for a fully government-owned financing strategy, due to government forgiveness of debt as sunk costs. However, this does not mean that the facilities should necessarily be constructed and operated by the government. The costs for hybrid combinations of public and private (commercial) financed options can compete under some circumstances with the costs of the government option. This analysis shows that commercial operations have potential to be economical, but there is presently no incentive for private industry involvement. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) currently establishes government ownership of partially used commercial nuclear fuel. In addition, the recently announced Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) suggests fuels from several countries will be recycled in the United States as part of an international governmental agreement; this also assumes government ownership. Overwhelmingly, uncertainty in annual facility capacity led to the greatest variations in unit costs necessary for recovery of operating and capital expenditures; the ability to determine annual capacity will be a driving factor in setting unit costs. For private ventures, the costs of capital, especially equity interest rates, dominate the balance sheet; and the annual operating costs, forgiveness of debt, and overnight costs dominate the costs computed for the government case. The uncertainty in operations, leading to lower than optimal processing rates (or annual plant throughput), is the most detrimental issue to achieving low unit costs. Conversely, lowering debt interest rates and the required return on investments can reduce costs for private industry.
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Rail abandonments in the South and their effect on NWPA rail shipments. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), February 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/138700.

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