About Buchi Emecheta
Buchi Emecheta (; born Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta; 21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) 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". Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Emecheta wrote from her childhood experiences, where she explored child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education, and using them in her works, gained recognition from critics and honours especially with her debut novel, Second Class Citizen. Her works often explore the themes of culture, and tensions between tradition and modernity. Most of her early novels were published by Allison and Busby with Margaret Busby as her editor. However, her husband was deeply suspicious of her writing, and he ultimately burned her first manuscript, The Bride Price, which was eventually published in 1976. A collection of these pieces became her first published book in 1972, In the Ditch (Barrie and Jenkins).
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