Background
She was born in Anambra State in Eastern Nigeria.
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The Trial and Other Stories
(The title story tells the tale of Anayo, a grief-stricken...)
The title story tells the tale of Anayo, a grief-stricken and pregnant widow, who stands accused by her jealous brother-in-law, Ezeji, of poisoning her husband. Anayo faces a dehumanizing and humiliating trial under the clan's traditional laws. An educated women, she stands firm and achieves some concessions, but can do little in the face of entrenched discrimination. Ifeoma Okoye, an Igbo from Nigeria, is a gender activist for the rights of widows. The author describes the purposes of her stories as firstly to entertain, and secondly to raise awareness about widows in Eastern Nigeria and other parts of Africa who are forced to undergo traditional rites, and stand to lose their worth and wealth in brutal traditional cultures which deprive them of their dignity.
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Men Without Ears (Drumbeat Novel)
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Behind the Clouds (Drumbeat ; 58)
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Ifeoma Okoye
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She then graduated from the University of Nigeria in Nsukka to earn a Bachelor of Arts honors degree in English in 1977.
Career
She went to school at Saint Monica"s College in Ogbunike to receive a teaching certificate in 1959. She wrote novels like Behind the Clouds, children"s novels and short stories, like The Village Boy and Eme Goes to School. Ifeoma Okoye was possibly born in 1937 in Anambra State, Nigeria as to this day is unknown the date she was actually born.
She went to school at Saint Monica"s College in Ogbunike and earned a teaching certificate.
She then taught at Saint Monica"s college for two years. During the years of 1963 to 1967, she went to the All Saints International School in Enugu.
She ran her own nursery school in Enugu from 1971 to 1974. From 1974 to 1977, Okoye went to school at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in English, where she gained the knowledge of writing quality works.
From 1986 to 1987, she studied at Aston University in England, where she obtained a postgraduate degree in English.
Later, she taught English at Nnamdi Azikiwe University until 2000. Behind the Clouds was about a couple who fails to have children, and how the blame mainly falls on the woman instead of the manitoba
Achievements
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Okoye received prizes for both Behind the Cloud and The Village Boy from the Nigerian National Council of Art and Culture in 1983, along with earning the best fiction of the year award for the novel, Men Without Ears, in 1984. In 1985, she received another award for Daily Bread after Eze at the Ife National Book Fair. She was also the African Regional Winner for the Commonwealth Short Story Competition in 1999.
Works
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The Trial and Other Stories
(The title story tells the tale of Anayo, a grief-stricken...)
- Men Without Ears (Drumbeat Novel)
- Behind the Clouds (Drumbeat ; 58)
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The Trial and Other Stories
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Nigeria