One Is Enough – Flora Nwapa

One Is Enough (1981): In this lean, powerful novel, Flora Nwapa traces the awakening of Amaka, a thirty‑year‑old Igbo woman whose six‑year marriage has been happy yet childless—until she learns her husband plans to take another wife who secretly bore him two sons. Choosing dignity over convention, she leaves both marriage and town for Lagos, where she reinvents herself as a savvy, if sometimes morally conflicted, entrepreneur—and forms a complex liaison with a Catholic priest. Torn between societal demands for motherhood and her own conviction that “one is enough,” Amaka’s journey becomes a resonant story of female autonomy and resilience in postwar Nigeria.