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In all my novels…I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
— Buchi Emecheta
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Buchi Emecheta
writer, novelist, sociologist, playwright, editor, children's writer
1944 – 2017
Buchi Emecheta
was a Nigerian writer who was the author of novels, plays, autobiography, and children's books. She first received notable critical attention for her 1974 novel, Second Class Citizen. Her other books include The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977) and The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Emecheta has been characterized as "the first successful black woman novelist living in Britain after 1948".
All Quotes by Buchi Emecheta
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I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.
— Buchi Emecheta
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I work toward the liberation of women but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
— Buchi Emecheta
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Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
— Buchi Emecheta
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A hungry man is an angry one.
— Buchi Emecheta