Dr Buchi Emecheta is an African novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

ist who has published over 20 books, including Second-Class Citizen (1974), The Bride Price

The Bride Price

The Bride Price is a 1976 novel by Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta...

(1976), The Slave Girl (1977) and The Joys of Motherhood

The Joys of Motherhood

The Joys of Motherhood is a novel written by Buchi Emecheta. It was first published in 1979 and was reprinted by Heinemann in 2008. It tells the tragic story of Nnu-Ego, daughter of Nwokocha Agbadi and Ona who had a bad fate with Childbearing....

(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

Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...

 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 21 July 1944, in Lagos

Lagos

Lagos is a port and the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. With a population of 7,937,932, it is currently the third most populous city in Africa after Cairo and Kinshasa, and currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa...

 to Igbo

Igbo people

Igbo people, also referred to as the Ibo, Ebo, Eboans or Heebo are an ethnic group living chiefly in southeastern Nigeria. They speak Igbo, which includes various Igboid languages and dialects; today, a majority of them speak English alongside Igbo as a result of British colonialism...

 parents, Alice (Okwuekwuhe) Emecheta and Jeremy Nwabudinke.