Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru nwapa (an hai fetane a Oguta13 Janairu 1931 – 16 Oktoba 1993)kuma marubuciya ceyar Nigeria kuma ana kiranta da suna maman AfrikaTeju Cole (an haife shi a ranar 27 ga Yuni, 1975) marubuci ne Ba'amurke, mai daukar hoto, kuma masanin tarihin fasaha . Cole marubucin littafin labari ne, Kowace Rana Ta Barawo ne (2007)  ; wani labari, Open City (2012)  ; tarin makala, Sanannun Abubuwa (2016) , da littafin hoto, Punto d'Ombra (2016); wanda aka buga a Turanci a shekarar 2017 azaman Makaho Makaho ) . An haifi Cole a Kalamazoo, Michigan, iyayen sa ƴan Najeriya ne, kuma shi ne ɗan fari a cikin yara huɗu. Cole da mahaifiyarsa sun dawo Lagos, Nijeriya, jim kaɗan bayan haihuwarsa, inda mahaifinsa ya haɗu da su bayan ya karɓi MBA daga Jami'ar Yammacin Michigan . Cole ya koma Amurka yana da shekara 17 ya halarci Jami’ar Western Michigan University tsawon shekara guda, sannan ya koma Kwalejin Kalamazoo, inda ya sami digiri na farko a 1996.