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 ...

An Ibusa village girl, brought up in Lagos of the 1940s, Buchi Emecheta had a life that was always overshadowed by the poverty and the deprivations of her early years. She was a poorly, undernourished ...

Delta State-born Buchi Emecheta was a pioneering female Nigerian novelist who had lived in the UK since 1960. She died late January 2017 at 72.

Who is Buchi Emecheta? Buchi was a writer who was born in Nigeria in 1944, and after originally being prevented from attending school, she persuaded her parents to let her attend an all-girl’s ...

Opinion - News of the passing of Buchi Emecheta came like a thief in the night last week. Because she has always been in our literary consciousness, still active in the literary field, we did not ...

Buchi Emecheta in 1985. Her books, she said, “are about survival, just like my own life.” George Braziller Inc. A British-based Nigerian writer, Ms. Emecheta gave voice to African ...

Florence Onyebuchi (Buchi) Emecheta, who blazed a trail as a women novelist, died on January 25, 2016 in London, UK. She was born 72 years ago in Lagos, Nigeria. Emecheta was a ground-breaking author ...

Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta, whose works included The Joys of Motherhood, Second-Class Citizen and The Bride Price, has died at her home in London at the age of 72.

An Ibusa village girl, brought up in Lagos of the 1940s, Buchi Emecheta had a life that was always overshadowed by the poverty and the deprivations of her early years. She was a poorly, undernourished ...