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Igbo Novelists: Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, Cyprian Ekwensi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Onwutalobi Anthony-Claret, Chris Abani
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-05.
ISBN 9781155628585
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, Cyprian Ekwensi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Onwutalobi Anthony-Claret, Chris Abani, Nnedi Okorafor, Okey Ndibe, Flora Nwapa, Rems Umeasiegbu, Nkem Nwankwo, Ifeoma Onyefulu. Excerpt: Dr. Buchi Emecheta (born July 21, 1944, in Nigeria ) is a PEPA African novelist who has published over 20 books, plays and shorts, including the seminal works, Second-Class Citizen (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977) and The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Her themes of child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education have won her considerable critical acclaim and honorary awards, including an Order of the British Empire in 2005. Early life (Florence Onye) Buchi Emecheta was born on July 21, 1944, in Lagos to Igbo parents, Alice (Okwuekwuhe) Emecheta and Jeremy Nwabudinke. While not much is known about her mother, her father was a railway worker in the 1940s. Due to gender bias of the times, the young Buchi was initially kept at home while her younger brother was sent to school; but after persuading her parents to consider the benefits of her education, Buchi spent her early childhood at an all-girl's missionary school. Her father died when she was nine years old. A year later, Buchi received a full scholarship to the Methodist Girls School, where she remained until she was married to Sylvester Onwordi, a student to whom she had been engaged since she was eleven. Buchi was sixteen years old. Onwordi immediately moved to London to attend university and Buchi joined him in 1962. She bore five children in six years, but it was an unhappy, oft-violent marriage. To keep her sanity, Emecheta wrote in her spare time; however, her husband was deeply suspicious of her writing, and he ultimately burned her first manuscript. At the age of t
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