Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta OBE ( born July 21, 1944 in Lagos, Nigeria ) is a Nigerian writer.

Her parents called Jeremy Nwabudike and Alice Emecheta Okwuekwu. They are both from the people of the Ibo. At 17 years and one child, she married her husband. Her husband went to London to study and she followed him. When she was 22 years old, she left him and took a degree in sociology. She had five children with her husband.

The literary breakthrough came with Emecheta 's novel The Joys of motherhood 1979 ( German: Twenty sacks Muschelgeld.1983 ) in which she describes the fate of the Chief 's daughter Nnu ego that breaks the tension between tradition and colonial presence. It is one of the great social novels in the tradition of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, in which are a colonized people, this time from the perspective of a woman, an account of his past and the path to modernity.

Quote

Buchi Emecheta: If I am in the UK, I can put all my resentment in my books, because I know that people in the UK read books; in Nigeria but I have to raise my voice in public, because people rarely buy books.

Works

  • The Bride price. 1976 novel
  • The slave girl. 1977 Roman ( German: slave girl in 1997. )
  • Titch the cat. 1979 children's book
  • Nowhere to play. 1980 children's book
  • . The Joys of motherhood .1980 edition 1979 Roman ( German: Twenty bags of shell money in 1983. )
  • The wrestling match. 1980 novel
  • The moonlight bride. 1980 novel
  • Destination Biafra. 1982 novel
  • Naira power. 1982 novel
  • Double yoke. 1983 novel
  • Head Above Water. 1986 autobiography
  • Gwendolen. (American: The Family ), 1989, Am1990, novel
  • The Rape of Shavi. 1983 novel
  • A kind of marriage. 1986 novel
  • Second- class citizen. 1994, first edition 1974, Roman ( German in: . History of Adah 1987)
  • In the ditch. 1994, first edition 1972 novel. ( German in. The story of Adah. , 1987)
  • Kehinde. 1994 novel.
  • The New Tribe. 2000 novel.
  • The story of Adah is translated by Christine Steffen published by Knaur, München ISBN 3-426-08025-7 1987.
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