Omenuko

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| translator = Francis W Pritchette

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| author = Pita Nwana

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| country = Nigeria

| language = Igbo

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| release_date = 1935

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Omenuko by Pita Nwana (by trade a carpenter) is the first novel to be written in the Igbo language, and the book was very successful among the Igbo people. The book tells the life story of the politician Igwegbe Odum, an Aro Igbo who migrated to Arondizuogu.

Written in 1933, it won a prize in a competition run by the International African Institute and is the biography of the eponymous slave-dealer, originally being published in 1935.

References

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{{cite book|last=Nwana|first=Pita|translator=Frances W. Pritchett|title=Omenuko|url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/igbo/omenuko/index.html#index|access-date=2 September 2011|year=2004|orig-year=First published in 1933}}

{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=George L|title=Concise compendium of the world's languages|publisher=Routledge|year=1998|isbn=978-0-415-16049-0|page=242}}

{{cite book|last=Obiechina|first=Emmanuel N|title=An African popular literature: a study of Onitsha market pamphlets|publisher=CUP Archive|year=1973|isbn=978-0-521-09744-4|page=15}}

{{cite book|last=Ricard|first=Alain|title=The languages & literatures of Africa: the sands of Babel|publisher=James Currey Publishers|year=2004|isbn=978-0-85255-581-1|page=84}}

{{cite book|last=Dathorne|first=O.R.|title=African literature in the twentieth century|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|year=1975|isbn=978-0-8166-0769-3|page=11}}

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Category:1935 Nigerian novels

Category:Igbo-language mass media

Category:Igbo culture