# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adaora-lily-ulasi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:02:50.526Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adaora-lily-ulasi"
name: "Adaora Lily Ulasi"
slug: "adaora-lily-ulasi"
description: "Adaora Lily Ulasi   was a Nigerian journalist and novelist. She is said to have been the first West African woman to earn a degree in journalism. As a journalist, she has worked for the BBC and Voice of America. As a novelist she wrote detective fiction in English, \"adapting the genre of the crime thriller to an Igbo or Yoruba context\"."
tagline: "Nigerian writer (1932-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Adaora_Lily_Ulasi.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932"
deathDate: "2016-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.468394666666669
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  236
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "اداورا ليلى ولاسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaora_Lily_Ulasi"
    title: "Adaora Lily Ulasi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaora_Lily_Ulasi"
    title: "Adaora Lily Ulasi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaora_Lily_Ulasi"
    title: "Adaora Lily Ulasi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaora_Lily_Ulasi"
    title: "Adaora Lily Ulasi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaora_Lily_Ulasi"
    title: "Adaora Lily Ulasi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaora_Lily_Ulasi"
    title: "Adaora Lily Ulasi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaora_Lily_Ulasi"
    title: "Adaora Lily Ulasi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaora_Lily_Ulasi"
    title: "Adaora Lily Ulasi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adaora_Lily_Ulasi"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adaora_Lily_Ulasi"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4680645"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump