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 roles with ...

Buchi had a very interesting and quite difficult life and that reflected in her novels. Her mother Alice Ogbanje Ojebeta Emecheta was sold into slavery by her brother, so she could buy silk ties. She ...

Emecheta's 1994 novel Kehinde narrates one family terrifying experience of moving back home to Nigeria after years abroad. Buchi Emecheta Award-winning Nigerian novelist, Buchi Emecheta has published ...

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