Buchi Emecheta

Wednesday 18 May 2011

We all have read the short story, ( at least you should )...we know the story and what it is about, but we don´t know anything about the writer.
Let´s learn something about the writer of our story...

Buchi Emecheta was born in August 14,1944, in Nigeria. She writes about child slavery, female independence and freedom and about poverty in Africa.
She received the Order of the British Empire in 2005.

Emecheta  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."

Famous books;

Second-Class Citizen (London: Allison & Busby, 1974).
The Bride Price (London: Allison & Busby, 1976).
The Slave Girl (London: Allison & Busby, 1977).
The Joys of Motherhood (London: Allison & Busby, 1979).
The Moonlight Bride (Oxford University Press, 1976).
Head Above Water (London: Fontana, 1986).
The Rape of Shavi (London: Ogwugwu Afor, 1984).


I hope you all learn something about Buchi Emecheta before your presentation in class.
Hugo Queirós