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Adaora Lily Ulasi (born 1932) was a

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journalist and novelist. She is said to have been the first West African woman to earn a degree in journalism. As a journalist, she has worked for the

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. As a novelist she wrote

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context".

Biography

Born in Aba, Eastern

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, daughter of an

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, she attended the local missionary school, but at the age of 15 was sent to the

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to study. After graduating from high school she then studied at

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and at the

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, earning a BA in journalism in 1954. She supplemented her income by writing the occasional newspaper column, working as a

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, and as a film extra appearing, for example, in the 1953 film ''

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. In the 1960s she was

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editor of the ''

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''. She subsequently married Deryk James and had three children Heather, Angela and Martin. After her divorce in 1972 she went to Nigeria as editor of ''

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'' magazine, and in 1976 returned to

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. Her first novel, ''Many Thing You No Understand'' (1970), "controversially (for the first time) used

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to dramatise the interaction between colonial officers and local people in the pre-independence era, as did her subsequent works, ''Many Thing Begin For Change'' (1971), ''Who Is Jonah?'' (1978) and ''The Man from Sagamu'' (1978). By contrast, ''The Night Harry Died'' (1974) is set in southern USA." Ulasi worked at the Times Complex in

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, Nigeria.

Bibliography

*''Many Thing You No Understand'' – London: Michael Joseph, 1970; Fontana, 1973 *''Many Thing Begin For Change'' – London: Michael Joseph, 1971; Fontana, 1975 *''The Night Harry Died'' – Lagos: Research Institute Nigeria, 1974 *''Who Is Jonah?'' – Ibadan: Onibonoje Press, 1978 *''The Man From Sagamu'' – London: Collins/Fontana, 1978; New York: Collier Macmillan, 1978

References

External links

"56 Years of Nigerian Literature: Adaora Lily Ulasi"
''Bookshy'', October 2016. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ulasi, Adaora L 1932 births Living people Nigerian women novelists Pepperdine University alumni USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism alumni 20th-century Nigerian novelists 20th-century Nigerian women writers Nigerian editors People from Aba, Abia BBC people Voice of America people Women's page journalists Igbo people