Omenuko by Pita Nwana (by trade a carpenter[1]) is the first novel to be written in the Igbo language,[2] and the book was very successful among the Igbo people.

[1] 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[3] and is the biography of the eponymous slave-dealer,[4] originally being published in 1935.

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