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Buchi Emecheta
Sign in to saveAlso known as Florence Onyebuchi "Buchi" Emecheta
Nigerian writer (1944–2017)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 21 July 1944
- Died
- 25 January 2017
- Works
- 47
Top works
- Adah's story
- Second Class Citizen
- Joys of Motherhood (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
- New Tribe
- Gwendolen
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 66
- Total plays
- 2,887
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Coronary flow reserve as a physiologic measure of stenosis severity
· 1990 · cited 429x
- A facile one-pot green synthesis and antibacterial activity of 2-amino-4H-pyrans and 2-amino-5-oxo-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-4H-chromenes
· 2009 · cited 422x
- <b>Aflatoxins B and G</b>
· 1963 · cited 245x
- Integrating TAM, TPB and TOE frameworks and expanding their characteristic constructs for e-commerce adoption by SMEs
· 2015 · cited 236x
- Nanosized magnesium oxide as catalyst for the rapid and green synthesis of substituted 2-amino-2-chromenes
· 2007 · cited 209x
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Quotes
- “In all my novels… I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.”
- “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 a writer and also as an oral communicator.”
- “I work toward the liberation of women but I'm not a feminist. I'm just a woman.”
- “Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.”
- “Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through God's grace, above water.”
- “When people are not educated enough for the job market, it is like a time bomb ticking away which could explode in the streets.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta , ( 1944-07-21 ) 21 July 1944, Lagos , Lagos State , Nigeria
- Died
- 25 January 2017 (2017-01-25) (aged 72), London , England
- Education
- Methodist Girls' School , University of London
- Occupation
- Writer
- Notable work
- In the Ditch (1972) Second Class Citizen (1974) The Bride Price (1976) The Slave Girl (1977) The Joys of Motherhood (1979)
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Buchi Emecheta (Listen OBE; born Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta; 21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) was a Nigerian writer, whose work includes novels, plays, autobiography, and children's books. She was best known for her 1974 novel, Second Class Citizen. Her other novels include 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".
Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Emecheta wrote from her childhood experiences, where she explored child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education, and using them in her works, gained recognition from critics and honours especially with her debut novel, Second Class Citizen. Her works often explore the themes of culture, and tensions between tradition and modernity. Most of her early novels were published by Allison and Busby with Margaret Busby as her editor.