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Florence Onyebuchi "Buchi" Emecheta OBE (21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) was a Nigerian-born novelist, based in the UK from 1962, who also wrote plays and an autobiography, as well as works for children.
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.
She began to write about the role of women in Nigerian society in The Bride Price (1976); The Slave Girl (1977), winner of the New Statesman Jock Campbell Award; and The Joys of Motherhood (1979), an account of women's experiences bringing up children in the face of changing values in traditional Ibo society.
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).
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...
Feb 10, 2017 · Buchi Emecheta, a British-based Nigerian writer who, in “Second-Class Citizen,” “The Joys of Motherhood” and other novels, gave voice to African women struggling to reconcile traditional...
Aug 31, 2010 · Through her personal struggles and exceptional writing abilities, Florence Onyebuchi “Buchi” Emecheta constructed a collection of literary works that reflected the lives of African women. Emecheta was born on July 21, 1944, in Yaba, Nigeria into a family with strong ties to their cultural traditions.
Jan 27, 2017 · Celebrated Nigerian-born novelist, teacher, and Mother Florence Onyebuchi “Buchi” Emecheta died at the age of 72 in her home in London. Based in the U.K. since the 1960s, the author of the widely...
Buchi Emecheta was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1944. She married as soon as she left school, aged sixteen, and had two children. Her husband went to study in London and she joined him in...
Oct 6, 2021 · 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.
