Quotes by Buchi Emecheta

About Buchi Emecheta:

Buchi Emecheta is a Nigerian novelist who has published over 20 books, including Second-Class Citizen (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977) and The Joys of Motherhood (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 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."
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A hungry man is an angry one.

Buchi Emecheta

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

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I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the chil...

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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

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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

I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.

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Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called ...

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I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

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One thing she did not know was the greatest book on human psychology is the Bible. If you were lazy and did not wish to work, or if you had failed to make your way in the society, you could always say 'my kingdom is not of this world'. If you were a ...

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I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

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I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

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Author Bio

  • NameBuchi Emecheta
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • BornJuly 21, 1944
  • CountryNigeria
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Sociologist
  • AwardsMember Of The Order Of The British Empire