United Kingdom-based renowned Nigerian author, Buchi Emecheta, is dead. She was 72. The author of The Joys of Motherhood, Second-Class Citizen and The Bride Price, was said to have died at her home in ...

Buchi had a very interesting and quite difficult life and that reflected in her novels. Her mother Alice Ogbanje Ojebeta Emecheta was sold into slavery by her brother, so she could buy silk ties. She ...

Emecheta's 1994 novel Kehinde narrates one family terrifying experience of moving back home to Nigeria after years abroad. Buchi Emecheta Award-winning Nigerian novelist, Buchi Emecheta has published ...

UK-based renowned Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta, author of The Joys of Motherhood, Second-Class Citizen and The Bride Price, has died at her home in London at the age of 72, according to report.

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Florence Onyebuchi (Buchi) Emecheta, who blazed a trail as a women novelist, died on January 25, 2016 in London, UK. She was born 72 years ago in Lagos, Nigeria. Emecheta was a ground-breaking author ...