Buchi Emecheta

21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017

Buchi Emecheta was a Nigerian-British novelist who wrote more than twenty books, including Second-Class Citizen, The Bride Price and The Joys of Motherhood. Her fiction drew on her own experience of migration and single motherhood in London and examined the lives of women in Nigeria and among the Nigerian diaspora in Britain.

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Born in Lagos, Nigeria
21 July 1944

Born in Lagos to Igbo parents from Ibusa in Delta State.

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Won a scholarship to Methodist Girls' High School, Lagos
c. 1954

Attended the school on a full scholarship after being orphaned in childhood.

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Married Sylvester Onwordi
1960

Married at the age of sixteen; the couple had five children.

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Moved to London
1962

Emigrated to Britain to join her husband, who was studying there.

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Published her first novel, In the Ditch
1972

The book grew out of a column she had written for the New Statesman.

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Graduated in sociology from the University of London
1974

Earned a BSc while raising five children and writing.

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Published The Joys of Motherhood
1979

Her best known novel, set in colonial Lagos.

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Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire
2005

Recognised for services to literature.

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Died in London
25 January 2017

Died at her home in London at the age of 72.

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