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The Last of the Strong Ones

1996 novel by Akachi Ezeigbo

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ109535065 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Last of the Strong Ones is feminist novel by Akachi Ezeigbo published in 1996. The first novel in her Umuga trilogy.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Last of the Strong Ones” as 1996 novel by Akachi Ezeigbo. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Last, Strong and Ones can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1996 novel by Akachi Ezeigbo. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q109535065. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Last of the Strong Ones”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Last of the Strong Ones primary sources, The Last of the Strong Ones archive and Last research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Last of the Strong Ones”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “The Last of the Strong Ones” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.