it is the first Nigerian novel to be written in Igbo language and successful among the Igbos tells story of the politician Igwegbe Odum and Aro who migrated to Arondizuogu
Written in 1933, it won a prize in a competition run by the International African Institute[3] and is the biography of the eponymous slave-dealer,[4] originally being published in 1935.[5]
References
^ abRicard, Alain (2004). The languages & literatures of Africa: the sands of Babel. James Currey Publishers. p. 84. ISBN978-0-85255-581-1.
^Nwana, Pita (2004) [First published in 1933]. Omenuko. Translated by Frances W. Pritchett. Retrieved 2 September 2011.