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{{Short description|1933 Igbo novel by Pita Nwana}}
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| name              = Omenuko
| title_orig        = 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
| translator        = Francis W Pritchette
| image             = File:Omenuko_book_cover.jpg
| caption           = African Heritage Press edition (2014)
| author            = Pita Nwana
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| country           = [[Nigeria]]
| language          = [[Igbo language|Igbo]]
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| release_date      = 1935
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'''''Omenuko''''' by [[Pita Nwana]] (by trade a carpenter<ref name="ricard2004"/>) is the first [[novel]] to be written in the [[Igbo language]],<ref name="intro"/> and the book was very successful among the Igbo people.<ref name="ricard2004"/> 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]]<ref name="campbell1988"/> and is the biography of the eponymous slave-dealer,<ref name="obiechina1973"/> originally being published in 1935.<ref name="dathorne1975"/>
== References ==
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<ref name="intro">{{cite book|last=Nwana|first=Pita|translator=Frances W. Pritchett|title=Omenuko|url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/igbo/omenuko/index.html#index|access-date=2 September 2011|year=2004|orig-year=First published in 1933}}</ref>
<ref name="campbell1988">{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=George L|title=Concise compendium of the world's languages|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=1998|isbn=978-0-415-16049-0|page=242}}</ref>
<ref name="obiechina1973">{{cite book|last=Obiechina|first=Emmanuel N|title=An African popular literature: a study of Onitsha market pamphlets|publisher=[[CUP Archive]]|year=1973|isbn=978-0-521-09744-4|page=15}}</ref>
<ref name="ricard2004">{{cite book|last=Ricard|first=Alain|title=The languages & literatures of Africa: the sands of Babel|publisher=James Currey Publishers|year=2004|isbn=978-0-85255-581-1|page=84}}</ref>
<ref name="dathorne1975">{{cite book|last=Dathorne|first=O.R.|title=African literature in the twentieth century|publisher=[[University of Minnesota Press]]|year=1975|isbn=978-0-8166-0769-3|page=11}}</ref>
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