Professor Akachi Ezeigbo is a distinguished literary scholar in Nigeria and Africa. She is a literary enigma, and the mother of contemporary Nigerian Literature. Professor Ezeigbo’s creative efforts have presented her as an endowed intellectual, creative writer, social critic, journalist, administrator and essayist of Igbo descent. No doubt, the eastern region of Nigeria, where she was born and raised propelled the richness of her depictions of settings in her novels.