Buchi Emecheta | |
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| Born | Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta July 21, 1944 Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria |
| Died | 25 January 2017 (aged 72) London, England |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Education | Methodist Girls' School University of London |
| Occupation | Writer |
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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). Others includes, The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977) and The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Emecheta has been characterized as "the first successful black woman novelist living in Britain after 1948".[2]
Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Emecheta's themes of child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education gained recognition from critics and honours especially with her debut novel, Second Class Citizen. Her works often explore the themes of culture, and tension between tradition and modernity.[3] Most of her early novels were published by Allison and Busby, and editor as Margaret Busby.[1]
- ^ a b Busby, Margaret (3 February 2017). "Buchi Emecheta obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ Dawson, Ashley, "Beyond Imperial Feminism: Buchi Emecheta's London Novels and Black British Women's Emancipation", in Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain, University of Michigan Press, 2007, p. 117.
- ^ "Buchi Emecheta | Biography, Books, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 9 May 2019.