Buchi Emecheta
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Buchi Emecheta (born July 21, 1944) is a Nigerian novelist.
Emecheta was born in Lagos, the daughter of a railway worker. At a young age she was orphaned, and spent her early childhood being educated at a missionary school (she won a scholarship to the Methodist Girls School when she was ten years old). At seventeen she was married to Sylvester Onwordi, a student to whom she had been engaged since she was eleven. Her husband went to London to study and she went with him. At the age of twenty-two she left her husband and took a degree in sociology, while supporting her five children and writing.
[edit] Works
[edit] Novels
- In the Ditch (1972)
- Second Class Citizen
- The Bride Price
- The Slave Girl (Jock Campbell Award)
- The Joys of Motherhood
- Destination Biafra
- Naira Power
- Double Yoke
- Gwendolen
- The Rape of Shavi
- Kehinde
- The New Tribe
[edit] Other
- A Kind of Marriage (play) — BBC television
- Head above Water (1986; autobiography)
