Buchi Emecheta

Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta was born on 21 July 1944 in Lagos, into an Igbo family from Ibusa. Fatherless at the age of nine, she had to fight to go to school. Married at around sixteen, she followed her husband to England, left him with her five children after violence, and made a living as a librarian, social worker and sociologist while writing. She published more than twenty books, received a British order distinction in 2005 and died on 25 January 2017 in London.

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• NovelSecond-Class CitizenBuchi Emecheta · 1974Literature