Buchi Emecheta, who has died aged 72, was a pioneer among female African writers, championing the rights of girls and women in novels that often drew on her own extraordinary life, its trajectory ...

The Nigerian author of Second Class Citizen wrote from real-life experience about the universal problems of poverty and oppression that could be the burdens of women everywhere Buchi Emecheta’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lagos – Google on Sunday celebrated Nigerian novelist Buchi Emecheta with its Doodle on what would have been her 75th birthday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Google Doodle is a special ...

GOOGLE Doodle is celebrating what would have been the 75th Birthday of Nigerian-born British author Buchi Emecheta who worked towards the liberation of women through her writing. We take a look at all ...

The story of Onyebuchi Emecheta whom the world knew as Buchi, is at the same time that of a personal and communal triumph; the triumph of the personal will and communal efforts over the vicissitudes ...

Buchi Emecheta, a British-based Nigerian writer who, in “Second-Class Citizen,” “The Joys of Motherhood,” and other novels gave voice to African women struggling to reconcile traditional roles with ...

Buchi wrote several novels and articles about life in Britain (Picture: @ThamesTv/YouTube) Buchi Emecheta is the latest author to be celebrated as part of a Google Doodle. She is a celebrated writer ...

"I work toward the liberation of women but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman." Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta, whose works included The Joys of Motherhood, Second-Class Citizen and The Bride Price, ...