Buchi Emecheta
Buchi Emecheta
Buchi Emecheta OBEis a Nigerian novelist based in Britain who has published more than 20 books, including Second-Class Citizen, The Bride Price, The Slave Girland The Joys of Motherhood. Her themes of child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education have won her considerable critical acclaim and honours, including an Order of the British Empire in 2005. Emecheta once described her stories as "stories of the world…… women face the universal problems of poverty and oppression, and the longer...
NationalityNigerian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 July 1944
CountryNigeria
Buchi Emecheta quotes about
I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.
I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.