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Buchi Emecheta

(1944–2017) Writer Nigeria

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Buchi Emecheta was a writer from Nigeria, best known for The Joys of Motherhood.

Quick Facts About Buchi Emecheta

Born: July 21, 1944
Died: January 25, 2017
Nationality: Nigeria
Profession: Writer
Notable works: The Joys of Motherhood
Known for: Gwendolen, The Bride Price, The Joys of Motherhood, In the Ditch, Second Class Citizen

About Buchi Emecheta

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".

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Officer of the Order of the British Empire honorary doctorate Member of the Order of the British Empire

Quotes by Buchi Emecheta

I was a threat to a lot of women and to a lot of men. The women cannot forgive me if I…

Annoying

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Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

Conscience

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A hungry man is an angry one.

Angry

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“Quanto mais eu penso no assunto, mais me dou conta de que nós, mulheres, fixamos modelos impossíveis para nós mesmas. Que tornamos…

Feminismo

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“The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.”

Trees

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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he…

African women

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“In Ibuza sons help their father more than they help their mother. A mother's joy is only in the name. She worries…

Family

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Women should not be suppressed because they are women, because they have children and because of men. Then I am a feminist.…

Children

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Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

Black

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When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a…

Austen

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I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

Feminist

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I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at…

Africa

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I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.

Brides

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“One thing she did not know was the greatest book on human psychology is the Bible. If you were lazy and did…

Bible

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I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me;…

Believe

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I'm not just a feminist - I'm a feminist plus.

Feminism

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Men blackmailing you as a woman leads you to trivialise sex and say 'it's not important, what is important is myself as…

Important

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I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

Developing

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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

Black

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“Nnu Ego was like those not-so well-informed Christians who,promised the Kingdom of Heaven,believed that it was literally just round the corner and…

Christianity

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“She did not delude herself into expecting Francis to love her. He had never been taught how to love, but had an…

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Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's…

Being a woman

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I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I…

Children

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“At home in Nigeria, all a mother had to do for a baby was wash and feed him and, if he was…

Children

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“Don't blame anyone for what has happened to your father. Things have changed drastically since the days of his own youth,but he…

Children

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