{"id":16437,"date":"2017-03-20T06:48:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T05:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16437"},"modified":"2017-06-07T16:42:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T15:42:16","slug":"nwakuche-mrs-flora-nee-nwapa","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/nwakuche-mrs-flora-nee-nwapa\/","title":{"rendered":"NWAKUCHE, (Mrs) Flora (nee Nwapa)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA. novelist, educationist, born January 13, 1931, Oguta, Imo State; married Gogo Nwakuche 1968, one son, two daughters; Education: Central School, Oguta, 1936-44, Elelenwa Girls&#8217; School, Port-Harcourt, 1945-48, Church Missionary Society Girls&#8217; School. Lagos, 1949-50, Queen&#8217;s College. Lagos, 1951, University College (now University of Ibadan), Ibadan, 1953-57, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1957-58; appointed Education Officer, Queen&#8217;s College, Enugu. 1958-61; Assistant Registrar, Public Relations, University of Lagos, 1962-67; appointed Commissioner for Health, former East Central State, Enugu, 1970-71, Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Urban Development, 1971-73; Commissioner for Establishments, defunct East Central State, 1973-75; Chair woman and Managing Director, Tana Press Limited, since 1977; also Chairwoman and Publisher, Nwamife Publishers; First Nigerian Women Novelist and Publisher , Patron, Business and Professional Women&#8217;s Club; Patron, National Council of Women Societies; National Honour: awarded Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), 1982; Publications: Efuru (London, Heinemann. 1966). Idu (Lon don, Heinemann, 1970), This is Lagos and other stories (Enugu, Nwamife 1971), Wives at War and other stories; Emeka \u2014 Driver&#8217;s Guard (London, 1972). One is Enough; Mammy Water; Journey to Space; The Miracle Kit tens; Never Again (Enugu, Nwamife Publishers, 1975); Hobbies: knitting, swimm ing; Official Address: Tana Press Limited, PO Box 62, Enugu, Anambra State; Home: 1 Ogbaru Street, Independence Layout, Enugu, Anambra State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-16437","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/16437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16437"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=16437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}