Buchi Emecheta

Novelist

1944-07-21 – 2017-01-25

Buchi Emecheta was a Nigerian-born novelist based in the United Kingdom, known for works exploring migration, gender, and postcolonial identity.

Books by Buchi Emecheta

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She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.
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She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.
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I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.
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I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
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Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
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