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'''Charry Ada Onwu'''-'''Otuyelu''' is a Nigerian literature writer<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=kf7_x8yz430C&pg=PR11&dq=Charry+Ada+Onwu#v=onepage&q=Charry%20Ada%20Onwu&f=false|title=Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria|last=Griswold|first=Wendy|date=2000-01-01|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=0691058296|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=0YspAQAAIAAJ&q=Charry+Ada+Onwu&dq=Charry+Ada+Onwu|title=ALA Bulletin: A Publication of the African Literature Association|date=1988-01-01|publisher=African Literature Association|language=en}}</ref> and the first female Director of Imo State Council for Arts and Culture.{{cn|date=September 2019}} She is an ex-soldier that worked with the [[Nigerian Armed Forces|Armed Forces]] medical service during the [[Nigerian Civil War|Biafran war]].<ref name=":0" /> She is from [[Amaigbo]] in [[Imo State]].<ref name=":0" /> She is a fiction writer of [[children's literature]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://dinfa.studiesonafrica.com/directory/children/2|title=DINFA {{!}} Directory {{!}} Children|last=Construct.|first=Kehance|website=dinfa.studiesonafrica.com|language=en|access-date=2017-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au:Onwu,+Charry+Ada.&qt=hot_author|title=Results for 'au:Onwu, Charry Ada.' [WorldCat.org]|website=www.worldcat.org|language=en|access-date=2017-03-27}}</ref> Her themes include folktales and history.
'''Charry Ada Onwu'''-'''Otuyelu''' is a Nigerian literature writer<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=kf7_x8yz430C&pg=PR11&dq=Charry+Ada+Onwu#v=onepage&q=Charry%20Ada%20Onwu&f=false|title=Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria|last=Griswold|first=Wendy|date=2000-01-01|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=0691058296|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=0YspAQAAIAAJ&q=Charry+Ada+Onwu&dq=Charry+Ada+Onwu|title=ALA Bulletin: A Publication of the African Literature Association|date=1988-01-01|publisher=African Literature Association|language=en}}</ref> and the first female Director of Imo State Council for Arts and Culture.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OWERRI: A City of Griots by Chuks Oluigbo|url=https://naija247news.com/2016/12/09/owerri-a-city-of-griots-by-chuks-oluigbo/|last=Akinsola|first=Babatunde|date=2016-12-09|website=Naija247news|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-27}}</ref> She is an ex-soldier that worked with the [[Nigerian Armed Forces|Armed Forces]] medical service during the [[Nigerian Civil War|Biafran war]].<ref name=":0" /> She is from [[Amaigbo]] in [[Imo State]].<ref name=":0" /> She is a fiction writer of [[children's literature]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://dinfa.studiesonafrica.com/directory/children/2|title=DINFA {{!}} Directory {{!}} Children|last=Construct.|first=Kehance|website=dinfa.studiesonafrica.com|language=en|access-date=2017-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au:Onwu,+Charry+Ada.&qt=hot_author|title=Results for 'au:Onwu, Charry Ada.' [WorldCat.org]|website=www.worldcat.org|language=en|access-date=2017-03-27}}</ref> Her themes include folktales and history.


Charry was a nurse by profession, having got her nursing professional qualifications from University Teaching Hospital Ibadan and Maternity Hospital Lagos. I was told she ran a clinic/maternity somewhere in Obinze, near Owerri, the Imo State capital. I would also learn from my friend Chukwubuike that she was also a civil war veteran, having served with the Biafran Armed Forces Medical Service during the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War (1967-70). But it was her writings that defined her essence, much like Cyprian Ekwensi and Anezi Okoro who, even though coming from the medical background, would become giants in the literary world.
Charry was a nurse by profession, having got her nursing professional qualifications from University Teaching Hospital Ibadan and Maternity Hospital Lagos. I was told she ran a clinic/maternity somewhere in Obinze, near Owerri, the Imo State capital. I would also learn from my friend Chukwubuike that she was also a civil war veteran, having served with the Biafran Armed Forces Medical Service during the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War (1967-70). But it was her writings that defined her essence, much like Cyprian Ekwensi and Anezi Okoro who, even though coming from the medical background, would become giants in the literary world.

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Charry Ada Onwu-Otuyelu is a Nigerian literature writer[1][2] and the first female Director of Imo State Council for Arts and Culture.[3] She is an ex-soldier that worked with the Armed Forces medical service during the Biafran war.[4] She is from Amaigbo in Imo State.[4] She is a fiction writer of children's literature.[4][5] Her themes include folktales and history.

Charry was a nurse by profession, having got her nursing professional qualifications from University Teaching Hospital Ibadan and Maternity Hospital Lagos. I was told she ran a clinic/maternity somewhere in Obinze, near Owerri, the Imo State capital. I would also learn from my friend Chukwubuike that she was also a civil war veteran, having served with the Biafran Armed Forces Medical Service during the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War (1967-70). But it was her writings that defined her essence, much like Cyprian Ekwensi and Anezi Okoro who, even though coming from the medical background, would become giants in the literary world.

One of the early female voices to take the genre of children literature very seriously, Charry Ada Onwu-Otuyelu ventured into creative literature in the early 1980s. Among her earliest works was ‘Ifeanyi and Obi’, which won the children literature award in 1988. She would go ahead in the course of her writing career to win several other literary awards with her outstanding works written for children.

Her keen interest in folktales and history defined the direction of her research, which mostly revolved around history and sociology. This also informed the themes of some of her works, which include ‘Catastrophe’, ‘Our Grannies Tales’, ‘Adobi’, ‘Triumph of Destiny’, ‘One Bad Turn’, ‘Ada Marries a Palm Tree’, ‘Amaigbo Kwenu: History of My Town’, ‘Good Morning Mr Kolanut’, among others.[6]

Works

  • Good Morning Mr. Kolanut! (2006; co-authored by Ama Boatemaa, Charry Ada Onwu, Samuel Boamah)
  • Triumph of Destiny (2003)
  • Amaigbo Kwenu: History, Legend & Myth of Amaigbo (1988)
  • Catastrophe: A Novel (1982)[7]
  • One Bad Turn (1982)[7]
  • Ifeanyi and Obi (1982)

References

  1. ^ Griswold, Wendy (2000-01-01). Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691058296.
  2. ^ ALA Bulletin: A Publication of the African Literature Association. African Literature Association. 1988-01-01.
  3. ^ Akinsola, Babatunde (2016-12-09). "OWERRI: A City of Griots by Chuks Oluigbo". Naija247news. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  4. ^ a b c Construct., Kehance. "DINFA | Directory | Children". dinfa.studiesonafrica.com. Retrieved 2017-03-27.
  5. ^ "Results for 'au:Onwu, Charry Ada.' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2017-03-27.
  6. ^ "Charry Ada Onwu, the nurse-soldier-writer". Businessday NG. 2017-08-12. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  7. ^ a b Griswold, Wendy; Bastian, Misty (1990). "A Bibliographic Listing of Nigerian Novels: 1952-1990". The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 25 (2): 225. doi:10.1177/002198949002500211. ISSN 0021-9894.


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