Nigerian literary icon, Buchi Emecheta is dead. The novelist who hailed from Ibusa, Delta State, died at the age of 72. She was one of Nigeria's veteran writers and has authored more than 20 books.
Some of her foremost works include 'The Joys of Motherhood', 'Second-Class Citizen', 'The Bride Price', amongst others.
Buchi Emecheta received many literary awards during her lifetime. Her themes of child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education won her considerable critical acclaim and honours, including an Order of the British Empire in 2005. Emecheta once described her stories as "stories of the world…[where]… women face the universal problems of poverty and oppression, and the longer they stay, no matter where they have come from originally, the more the problems become identical." She has been characterised as "the first successful black woman novelist living in Britain after 1948" -Wikipedia
Buchi Emecheta received many literary awards during her lifetime. Her themes of child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education won her considerable critical acclaim and honours, including an Order of the British Empire in 2005. Emecheta once described her stories as "stories of the world…[where]… women face the universal problems of poverty and oppression, and the longer they stay, no matter where they have come from originally, the more the problems become identical." She has been characterised as "the first successful black woman novelist living in Britain after 1948" -Wikipedia
