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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dr Buchi Emecheta (born 14 August 1944, in Nigeria) is an African novelist who has published over 20 books, including Second-Class Citizen (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977) and The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Her themes of child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education have won her considerable critical acclaim and honours, including an Order of the British Empire in 2005. Emecheta 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." (Florence Onye) Buchi Emecheta was born on 14 August 1944, in Lagos to Igbo parents, Alice (Okwuekwuhe) Emecheta and Jeremy Nwabudinke. Her father was a railway worker in the 1940s. Due to the gender bias of the time, the young Buchi Emecheta was initially kept at home while her younger brother was sent to school; but after persuading her parents to consider the benefits of her education, she spent her early childhood at an all-girl's missionary school. Her father died when she was nine years old.
