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	Buchi Emecheta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Buchi Emecheta (born July 21, 1944) is a Nigerian novelist.
		Emecheta was born in Lagos, the dughter 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).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buchi_Emecheta (163 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Buchi Emecheta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Buchi Emecheta is one of Africa’s most prolific writers with 20 books, including novels, plays, poetry, essays and children’s books to her credit.
		Buchi Emecheta was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1944 to Jeremy Nwabudike and Alice Okwuekwu Emecheta.
		Following this decision, Emecheta, at what must have been a very young age, reportedly paid a visit to a neighbour and teacher in the her brother’s local school, presumably to persuade him to communicate to her parents the depth of her desire to go to school.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1424 (1187 words)

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		On July 21, 1944 in Yaba near Lagos, Nigeria, Buchi Emecheta was born to Jeremy Nwabudike and Alice Okwuekwu Emecheta.
		At a young age, Emecheta was orphaned and she spent her early childhood years being educated at a missionary school.
		In 1960, at the age of sixteen, Emecheta was married to Sylvester Onwordi, a student to whom she had been engaged since she was eleven.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Emech.html (725 words)

	Donna Haraway
		The author is Buchi Emecheta, born in Nigeria in 1944 of Ibuza background.
		Barbara Christian was committed to forbidding the marginalization of lesbianism in feminist discourse by women of color, and she subtly enlisted Emecheta as one of her texts, for precisely the same reasons that Ogunyemi excluded Emecheta from her geneology of womanism in the African diaspora.
		Emecheta sketched the University of Calabar as a microcosm of the contending forces within post-independence Nigeria, including the New Christian Movement, Islamic identities, demands of ethnic groups, economic constraints from both family and national locations in the global economy, contradictions between village and university, and controversy over "foreign" ideologies such as feminism.
	humwww.ucsc.edu /CultStudies/PUBS/Inscriptions/vol_3-4/DonnaHaraway.html (4559 words)

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		Emecheta shows that polygamy is genderized because the men are allowed to have many wives, but women were only allowed to have one husband.
		Emecheta writes: “This was a life Nnu Ego did not know how to cope with No physical help came from friends Nnu Ego accepted her lot.” (Emecheta 161) While Nnu Ego had no help from anyone, she survived because of her independence and work ethic.
		Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood is a novel that details the struggle of women during colonial times.
	www.unc.edu /~cmcdanie/Women'sStudies.doc (1211 words)

	Emecheta, Buchi on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		EMECHETA, BUCHI [Emecheta, Buchi], 1944-, Nigerian novelist, b.
		Class, culture, and the colonial context: the status of women in Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.(Critical Essay)
		Mother Courage: Buchi Emecheta's style is rooted in the oral tradition of Africa.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/Emecheta.asp (431 words)

	Buchi Emecheta
		Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta was born to Ibo parents in Lagos on 21 July 1944.
		Buchi Emecheta is also the author of several novels for children, including Nowhere to Play (1980) and The Moonlight Bride (1980).
		The female protagonists of Emecheta’s fiction challenge the masculinist assumption that they should be defined as domestic properties whose value resides in their ability to bear children and in their willingness to remain confined at home.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth34 (1201 words)

	Emecheta, Buchi - Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Buchi Emecheta is a Nigerian author who has received great acclaim for her work both in the UK and Nigeria, writing nineteen novels since 1972.
		Buchi Emecheta's autobiography, Head Above Water (Heinemann 1986) spans her transition from a traditional village to life in North London as an internationally acclaimed author.
		Emecheta's conception of tradition is complex, neither accepting nor rejecting entirely: her female central characters seek sustenance from their people's customs, but if that fails them they will turn to contemporary options.
	people.africadatabase.org /en/profile/2442.html (1773 words)

	main00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Emecheta reveals the exploitative and destructive power of capitalism by creating characters who sacrifice their identities and their culture to survive under a colonial system; and the only way to survive within the imperialistic structure is to excel within the capitalist organization.
		Emecheta, though criticizing her own tribal beliefs, uses these situations to illustrate the idea that organized religion oppresses and sedates the workers so their exploitation will seem less obvious and less malignant (that organized religion fools the workers into thinking that hierarchical systems are natural, the will of God - The Great Chain of Being).
		Buchi Emecheta uses intimate and heartrending tales to successfully develop empathy for her characters; concurrently, she uses a Marxist analysis to deliver a powerful political message on colonial life - from the workersí viewpoint - during the British rule of Nigeria.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~exlibris/essays00/brizee.htm (4396 words)

	Buchi Emecheta Biography / Biography of Buchi Emecheta Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In her fiction she shows courage in challenging traditional male attitudes about gender roles; anger and iconoclastic contempt for unjust institutions, no matter how time-honored or revered they are; and a willingness to seek new ways to break what she sees as the unjust subjugation of women in the name of tradition.
		Emecheta was born on 21 July 1944 in Yaba near Lagos, Nigeria, to Jeremy Nwabudike Emecheta (a railway worker and molder) and Alice Okwuekwu Emecheta, both Igbos.
		The young Emecheta was orphaned early on and educated at a missionary school until she was sixteen, when she married and moved to London.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-buchi-emecheta/detailed.html (224 words)

	Emecheta-Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In many of her novels Buchi Emecheta deals with the issues of displacement and transplantation and this she does from a gendered perspective.
		Buchi Emecheta was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1944 in an environment which was “a divided, multilingual world, in which she and her group [the Igbos] were, if not foreigners, then at least a visiting minority whose customs and language were not the dominant ones” (Petersen 283).
		With respect to their setting, it is possible to categorise Buchi Emecheta’s novels into three groups: those that are set in Britain, those that are set in Nigeria, and those that are set in both countries.
	yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr /~sakilli/emecheta-paper.htm (3772 words)

	Editor's Notes -- The Lantern -- May 2000
		Buchi Emecheta's novels draw from the experiences of her own life -- a life in which she fought against the "ghettoization of the self" -- she refused to accept the labels that people had placed upon her.
		Through the tough times, Buchi Emecheta listened to her "chi" (or spirit) and became, in spite of all the obstacles, a writer.
		Like Buchi Emecheta, they are compelled to write because it is simply what they do.
	staffweb.library.northwestern.edu /thelantern/may2000/editor5.html (373 words)

	WOMEN IN WORLD HISTORY: MODULE #4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Buchi Emecheta was born in Nigeria in 1944 to Ibo parents.
		She was orphaned at a young age, and subsequently educated at a missionary school in Nigeria.
		In this excerpt Buchi Emecheta describes her expectations before she arrived in Britain, and the very different reality she experienced.
	chnm.gmu.edu /wwh/p/136.html (704 words)

	Watermarks 2003
		Emecheta, I felt, provided a much-needed glimpse into the world of the African woman, a world harsher than that of the African male because woman is doubly marginalized.
		Nnu Ego, Emecheta's protagonist, became at once for me the poster female of Africa, a representative of all subjugated African women, and her story alerted me to all the wrongs committed against African women, wrongs that could only be righted through feminist discourse.
		Emecheta accepts the responsibilities that Ogundipe-Leslie states the African female writer has--the author tells the woman's experience though the woman's point of view, and she does so while recognizing her connection to the Third World and working to correct the stereotypes of Third World women, particularly African women.
	www.llp.armstrong.edu /watermarks5/hg.html (2704 words)

	Precious Magazine - November 04- Arts & Culture- Books -Buchi Emecheta and Courttia Newland
		We were welcomed by Buchi’s warm smile and her willingness to sign autographs with personalised messages.
		When speaking of her inspirations, Buchi stated the best sources are the people she meets in daily life.
		Buchi then referred to her own experiences and how she came to be a writer.
	www.preciousonline.co.uk /arts/nov04/books.htm (652 words)

	WILLA Volume 9 - Motherhood as Seen in Two Works of African Literature
		Bâ's text is, in fact, a very short novel employing the epistolary form to convey the thoughts and feelings of a recently widowed woman in Senegal, Ramatoulaye, to her longtime friend, Aissatou, who lives in the United States after experiencing many of the same marital and societal problems as the letter writer.
		Emecheta's novel from the sane period, in 1979, spans the middle of the twentieth century, viewing major historical and societal changes through the prism of the life of one woman, Nnu Ego, an Igbo from Nigerian.
		Emecheta's book, through its focus almost exclusively on Nnu Ego's motherhood, dramatizes the almost utterly dependent and therefore helpless position of women in her society.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/old-WILLA/fall00/serafin.html (2537 words)

	Emecheta
		Buchi Emecheta was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1944.
		Emecheta's most critically acclaimed work is remarkably different from her earlier work.
		Emecheta's most recent book Gwendolen (1989) describes the life of a young West Indian girl who emigrates to London with her family.
	web.uflib.ufl.edu /cm/africana/emecheta.htm (507 words)

	The Joys of Motherhood
		Buchi Emecheta is an Ibu woman who was born near Lagos (where this story takes place).
		Emecheta focuses on the role of women in traditional African cultures and the conflicts they face as they are forced to assimilate into a colonial-influenced lifestyle.
		In her interview with James, Buchi Emecheta responds to James' assertion: "I discussed that idea in my latest book, The Rape of Shavi, which is about the rape of a culture.
	www.wmich.edu /dialogues/texts/joysofmotherhood.html (2537 words)

	Alibris: Buchi Emecheta
		Born of Ibo parents in Nigeria, Buchi Emecheta is widely known for her multi-layered stories of fl women struggling to maintain their identity and construct viable lives for themselves and their families.
		Sixteen-year-old Okei, left an orphan after the Nigerian civil war, engages in a wrestling match to prove to his critical uncle and aunt that he is not as idle and worthless as they think.
		Buchi Emecheta's autobiography spans the transition from a tribal childhood in the African bush to life in North London as an internationally acclaimed writer.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Buchi_Emecheta (452 words)

	British Commonwealth literature 2005-2006
		Emecheta drew her material directly from her own life, which she describes as "charting my own social reality," and she has continued to focus upon the lives of the Black immigrant woman.
		Buchi Emecheta is a lively, energetic and strong woman, seemingly unaffected by her success.
		Emecheta recounted her experience of visiting a friend in a psychiatric hospital in London where, "out of the 11 patients, nine were Black,".
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Crete/3333 (17220 words)

	The Wrestling Match Summary & Essays - Buchi Emecheta
		Buchi Emecheta’s The Wrestling Match was first published in 1983 in Great Britain by Oxford University Press, in conjunction with University Press Ltd. of Nigeria.
		The story is a deceptively simple tale of a boy coming of age in a Nigerian village, but Emecheta uses the tale as a commentary on war, as well as on relationships between generations and the need for everyone to have productive work.
		Emecheta retains the strong storytelling tradition of her Nigerian homeland; The Wrestling Match is told in simple yet vivid language, and makes readers feel as if they’re in “an open clearing in which children and old people sat, telling stories and singing by the moonlight,” as the narrator of the book notes.
	www.enotes.com /wrestling-match (237 words)

	African Writers Index
		"...Emecheta's feminist views on her culture have often engaged readers but brought consternation to her African male critics.
		Emecheta has again produced a fast-moving and enthralling narrative.
		This hard-hitting, fast-moving novel charts the painful birth of the Biafran republic in the late 1960s, and centers around Debbie Ogedembge, the Oxford educated daughter of a corrupt Nigerian government minister.
	www.geocities.com /africanwriters/AuthorsE.html (592 words)

	EmechetaArchives
		Emecheta characteristically initiates a novel in which mothers are to become a focal point.
		In Emecheta's novel, the young men are the foes of tradition.
		Emecheta is on record as having been deeply upset by the speech, with its attendant visions of
	www.fb10.uni-bremen.de /anglistik/kerkhoff/AfrWomenWriters/Emecheta/EmechetaArchives.htm (9072 words)

	Emecheta
		1944-, Nigerian novelist, born as Florence Onye Buchi Emecheta.
		Emecheta was married at the age of 16 and followed her husband to London in 1962.
		She viewed her works as sociological statements that examine the universal female condition although they speak specifically for Nigerian women who are struggling against traditional mores that oppress or limit their progress.
	www.fb10.uni-bremen.de /anglistik/kerkhoff/AfricanLit/Emecheta/Emecheta.htm (301 words)

	Her Story \| BBC World Service
		Buchi and Ada were considered second class citizens (people without value) at that time in the 1960s both because they were women and because they were Black.
		Like Buchi Emecheta, Adah has a dream - a dream of going to paradise, the United Kingdom - which her father has praised all through her childhood as 'the Kingdom of God', for her it was the Promised Land.
		Many of Emecheta's books seem to be heavily influenced by her own experiences and real events - but she didn't start out with the intention of writing about her life:
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/arts/features/womenwriters/emechetta_work.shtml (353 words)

	Verba: Bibliography Part 1: From Achebe to Ekwensi
		Daymond, M.J. "Buchi Emecheta, Laughter and Silence: Changes in the Concept of 'Woman' and 'Mother'." Journal of Literary Studies.
		Katrak, Ketu, H. "Womanhood/Motherhood: Variations on a Theme in Selected Novels of Buchi Emecheta." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
		Onwuhara, Kate C. "The Tension of Two Cultures: Ambivalence in Buchi Emecheta's Feminism." Critical Theory and African Literature.
	www.indiana.edu /~librcsd/bib/verba/bib-1.html (2237 words)

	Reading Buchi Emecheta — www.greenwood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One of the text's many strengths is Fishburn's analysis of Emecheta's fiction, which will enable readers with little or no prior knowledge of the novels to understand their philosophical and historical context.
		She challenges the notion that all we need to understand African texts is a willingness to be open to them, arguing that too many of the cultural and critical preconceptions we bring to these texts interfere with our ability to understand them.
		Directly responding to Western feminist criticism written about Emecheta, this study argues that Emecheta herself is not a feminist in the Western sense and that her novels should not be construed as reflecting this political interest.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GM9589.aspx (213 words)

	Second Class Citizen
		Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta is about the struggle of Adah (the main character) and her survival, not only of herself but also her dreams, while growing into a woman, moving from a high class position in her native Nigeria to a very poor class in a predominantly white European society.
		Buchi Emechata was born of Ibuza heritage in Nigeria near Lagos.
		Emecheta's struggle getting her education in London played a large part in her life.
	www.wmich.edu /dialogues/texts/secondclasscitizen.html (1869 words)

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