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Buchi Emecheta. Florence Onyebuchi "Buchi" Emecheta OBE (21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) was a Nigerian-born novelist, based in the UK from 1962, [1] who also wrote plays and an autobiography, as well as works for children. She was the author of more than 20 books, including Second Class Citizen (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl ...
Buchi Emecheta (born July 21, 1944, Lagos, Nigeria—died January 25, 2017, London, England) was an Igbo writer whose novels deal largely with the difficult and unequal role of women in both immigrant and African societies and explore the tension between tradition and modernity. Emecheta married at age 16, and she emigrated with her husband ...
Biography. Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta was born to Ibo parents in Lagos on 21 July 1944. She moved to Britain in 1960, where she worked as a librarian and became a student at London University in 1970, reading Sociology. She worked as a community worker in Camden, North London, between 1976 and 1978. Much of her fiction has focused on sexual ...
Feb 3, 2017 · Buchi Emecheta, who has died aged 72, was a pioneer among female African writers, championing the rights of girls and women in novels that often drew on her own extraordinary life, its trajectory ...
Jan 15, 2017 · Buchi Emecheta OBE was a Nigerian novelist who has published over 20 books, including Second-Class Citizen (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977) and The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Her themes of child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education have won her considerable critical acclaim and honours, including an Order of the British Empire in 2005.
Feb 10, 2017 · George Braziller Inc. By William Grimes. Feb. 10, 2017. Buchi Emecheta, a British-based Nigerian writer who, in “Second-Class Citizen,” “The Joys of Motherhood” and other novels, gave ...
Oct 6, 2021 · My mother, the pioneer: how Buchi Emecheta captured immigrant life in 1970s London. Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta balanced a literary career with raising five children. As a new edition of her seminal novel Second-Class Citizen is released, her son remembers her remarkable career. There was a side to my mother which was a stranger to me. This ...
