Omenuko
''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 publisher in 1935. References

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Pita Nwana
Nwosu Pita Nwana (1881 — 1968) was a Nigerian novelist and carpenter. He mostly known as the writer of the first Igbo language, Igbo novel ''Omenuko''. Nwana's ''Omenuko'' is regarded as the bedrock for fiction in Igbo literature. Life and career Nwana was born in 1881. He was the youngest child in a family of seven. He worked as a at Methodist College Uzuakoli and later as an interpreter for Rev. J. Wood at then Ibo Institute. In 1933, he wrote ''Omenuko'' which won a prize in a competition run by the International African Institute, and was later published by Longman in 1935. References

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