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Buchi Emecheta was a Nigerian writer who wrote novels, plays, autobiography, and children’s book. She is known for her first novel, Second Class Citizen (1974).
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About the Buchi Emecheta
Buchi Emecheta was a Nigerian writer who wrote novels, plays, autobiography, and children’s book. She is known for her first novel, Second Class Citizenand The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Emecheta has been characterized as “the first successful black woman novelist living in Britain after 1948”.
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. Most of her early novels were published by Allison and Busby, and editor as Margaret Busby.
7 Quotes by Buchi Emecheta
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A hungry man is an angry one.
Buchi EmechetaNigerian writer (1944-2017)
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I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person… to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.
Buchi EmechetaNigerian writer (1944-2017)
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I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.
Buchi EmechetaNigerian writer (1944-2017)
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I’d done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn’t read it.
Buchi EmechetaNigerian writer (1944-2017)
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Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
Buchi EmechetaNigerian writer (1944-2017)
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I work toward the liberation of women, but I’m not feminist. I’m just a woman.
Buchi EmechetaNigerian writer (1944-2017)
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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
Buchi EmechetaNigerian writer (1944-2017)