Florence Orabueze

Florence Onyebuchi Orabueze (born 1966) is a Nigerian poet, writer and professor of English and literary studies. She was a former director of the Institute of African studies of the institution, the founder of the Grace Uzoma Okonkwo Foundation and a member of Nigerian Academy of Letters.

Early life and education On 30 March 1966, Orabueze was born in Enugu-Ezike, Igboeze Local Government Area, Enugu State. She is an Anambra State native and comes from Uruagu, Nnewi, in the Nnewi North Local Government Area. From 1973 until 1979, she attended Uruagu Nnewi Central School (St. Mary's), where she earned her First School Leaving Certificate. She attended the Girls' Secondary School in Uruagu, Nnewi, where she obtained a West African School Certificate in 1984. She was given admission to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where she studied English language and literature for her BA from 1984 to 1988. The University of Nigeria, Nsukka, awarded her a master's degree in teaching English as a second language in 1991.

Career Orabueze began her academic career as an assistant lecturer at department of English, University of Nigeria, in 1996. In 1997, she was promoted to lecturer II. She became lecturer I in 2000, a senior lecturer in 2004 and a professor of English at the University of Nigeria. On 11 May 2017, she did her presentation of inaugural lecture. Orabueze, F.O. Society, Women and Literature in Africa. Port Harcourt: M & J Educational Books, 2010. Essay in Honor of Professor Florence Onyebuchi Orabueze, Perspective on Language, Literature & Human Rights. Nsukka: University of Nigeria Press Limited, 2019. Orabueze, F. (2010). "The prison of Nigerian woman: female complicity in Sefi Atta's Everything good will come". African Literature Today, 27, 85–102. Orabueze, F. (2004). "The Feminist Crusade Against Violation of Women's Fundamental Human Rights: Mariama Ba's So Long A Letter and Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen". Women in the Academy: Festschrift for Prof. Helen Chukwuma, 111–16. Orabueze, F. O. (2011). "The Dispossessed in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun". Department of English and Literary Studies, Faculty of Arts University of Nigeria. Orabueze, F. O. (2020). "Art, History, Religion and Literature: the iconoclasts in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart". IKENGA: International Journal of Institute of African Studies, 21(4).