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 ...

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 ...

Now elevated to Penguin Modern Classics status, this fine 1974 novel, about a Nigerian woman’s struggle to make a life in London, gets its due at last When Granta produced its first Best of Young ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eulogies have continued to pour in for the late literary icon, Buchi Emecheta, who died on Wednesday in London. Regarded as one of Nigeria’s most revered female writers, the late Buchi Emecheta died ...

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 ...