Various news media at the end of last week responded to word that Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta had died in her London home at 72. Born in Lagos in 1944, Florence Onyebuchi “Buchi” Emecheta was given ...

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 ...

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 Emecheta is a role model and a woman of strength. Considered by many to be one of the most important female African writers, she is greatly respected and admired for her creative and narrative ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...