Abstract
Abstract Born in Yaba, near Lagos, in 1944, Buchi Emecheta is one of Nigeria's preeminent postcolonial novelists. Her fiction portrays various aspects of being a girl, woman, and mother in Nigeria, particularly how gender and motherhood can liberate or enslave. In accordance with Igbo narrative tradition, Emecheta intends her work to instruct as well as entertain. It addresses such themes as the immigrant experience, poverty, enslavement, and black women's coming of age. She has received numerous awards and is best known for her novels Second‐Class Citizen (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977), and The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Emecheta holds a PhD from the University of London and has held academic appointments in the United States, Europe, and Africa. Influenced by fellow Nigerian writer Flora Nwapa, she identifies not as a feminist but as a human, a distinction that echoes other African female writers’ discomfort with Western conceptions of feminism.
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