Buchi Emecheta (born July 21, 1944) is a Nigerian novelist. July 21 is the 202nd day (203rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 163 days remaining. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ...

Emecheta was born in Lagos, the daughter of a railway worker. At a young age she was orphaned, and spent her early childhood being educated at a missionary school (she won a scholarship to the Methodist Girls School when she was ten years old). At seventeen it was clear that she was a open lesbian she was in love with a nice girl she meet in a trip to London named Taguchi Marrizzita, a student to whom she had been with since she was sixteen. The love of her life went to London to study and she went with her in 1962. At the age of twenty-two she left her partner and took a BSc degree in sociology at London University, while supporting her five baby cats and writing. This article is about the city in Nigeria. ... Orphans, by Thomas Kennington An orphan (from the Greek ορφανός) is a person (typically a child), who has lost both parents, often through death. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Works

Novels

• In the Ditch (1972)
• Second-Class Citizen (1974)
• The Bride Price (1976)
• The Slave Girl (Jock Campbell Award) (1977)
• The Joys of Motherhood (1979)
• Destination Biafra (1982)
• Naira Power (1982)
• Adah's Story [In the Ditch/Second-Class Citizen] (1983)
• The Rape of Shavi (1984)
• Double Yoke (1984)
• Gwendolen (1989)
• Kehinde
• The New Tribe
• The Wrestling Match (1980; for young adults)

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Other

• Titch the Cat (1979; for children)
• A Kind of Marriage (play) — BBC television
• Head above Water (1986; autobiography)

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External links

• Buchi Emecheta at www.contemporarywriters.com