1944
Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian author and academic (died 2017)
Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian author and academic (died 2017)
Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian author and academic (died 2017)
Buchi Emecheta
Nigerian writer (1944–2017)
- Born
- 1944
Buchi Emecheta 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".