Flora Nwapa’s Women are Different : Autofiction

The purpose of this article is to investigate whether Flora Nwapa's Women are Different is an autofiction or a mere product of imagination. To carry out the research, the work has been divided into three sections. In the first section entitled definitions of terms, there have been definitions of terms such as biography, autobiography, fiction, and autofiction. In the second section whose title is Flora Nwapa's school life, there has been the investigation of the school life depicted in the novel under scrutiny and the author's school life painted in her biography by Marie Umeh. After the scrutiny related to school life, it has been discovered that there is an autofiction because of the similarities of facts between the school life depicted in the novel and the one in the author's biography. The third section isFlora Nwapa's marital life. After the scrutiny of both the marital life painted in Women are Differentand the one in the author's biography, it has been discovered that there is an autofiction in Flora Nwapa's marital life as well.