Buchi Emecheta

On 25 January 2017, Nigerian-born novelist Buchi Emecheta passed away. "She was the author of more than 20 books, including Second Class Citizen (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977) and The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Most of her early novels were published by the London-based company Allison and Busby, where her editor was Margaret Busby.

Emecheta's themes of child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education gained recognition from critics and honours. She once 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." Her works explore the tension between tradition and modernity. She has been characterized as "the first successful black woman novelist living in Britain after 1948""
(From the English Wikipedia)

Selected publications

By Buchi Emecheta

Destination Biafra / Butchi Emecheta. - Oxford [etc.] : Heinemann, 1994.

Head above water / Butchi Emecheta. - Oxford [etc.] : Heinemann, 1994.

Kehinde / Butchi Emecheta. - Oxford [etc.] : Heinemann, 1994.

Second-class citizen / Butchi Emecheta. - Oxford [etc.] : Heinemann, 1994.

Gwendolen / Butchi Emecheta. - London : Collins, 1989.

About Buchi Emecheta

Transnationalism in Diasporic Context: African Woman in Gwendolen by Buchi Emecheta.
In: PostScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies, vol.4 (2), p.156-165, 2019.

Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017): Beyond the dingy ditch.
In: Tydskrif vir letterkunde, vol.54 (1), p.250-252, 2017.

Obituary: Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017).
In: Journal of Commonwealth literature, vol.52 (2), p.401-408, 2017.

Gender-based genre conventions and the critical reception of Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra (Nigeria).
In: Literator, vol.35 (1), p.11-7, 2014.

Emerging perspectives on Buchi Emecheta / Marie Umeh. - Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 1996.

For more publications see the ASCL Library Catalogue.

Celebrating Buchi Emecheta : keynote panel. - London, SOAS, 3 February 2018

Timeline Buchi Emecheta via Wikidata