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Buchi Emecheta OBE (born Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta; 21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) was a Nigerian writer [1] who wrote novels, plays, autobiography, and children's book. She is known for her first novel, Second Class Citizen (1974).
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.
Buchi Emecheta has 24 books on Goodreads with 54054 ratings. Buchi Emecheta’s most popular book is The Joys of Motherhood.
Jan 26, 2017 · Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta, whose works included The Joys of Motherhood, Second-Class Citizen and The Bride Price, has died at her home in London at the age of 72.
May 23, 2018 · Nigerian-born novelist Buchi Emecheta was considered one of her country ’ s most distinguished literary names, though she moved to England in the early 1960s.
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.
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.
Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017) was a Nigerian writer, born in Lagos to a seamstress mother and a railway worker father. Emecheta’s early ambition was to get an education, like her brother Adolphus. Orphaned early in life, a scholarship to a coveted high school gave her the opportunity she wanted.
Aug 24, 2021 · In the early 1970s, Buchi Emecheta is the first female novelist of African descent to explore the experiences of a Black woman in post-war Britain. Her autobiographically-inspired debut In the Ditch (1972) and its prequel Second Class Citizen (1974), published in a...
