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Buchi Emecheta
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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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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Nigeria
- Place of birth
- Lagos
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- children's writer
- Educated at
- University of London
- Employer
- University of London
- Languages spoken
- Igbo
- Field of work
- science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
- Image
- July21 Buchi Emecheta.png
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- date of birth
- 1944-07-21
- date of death
- 2017-01-25
- cause of death
- stroke
- Commons category
- Buchi Emecheta
- ethnic group
- Igbo people
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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