Buchi Emecheta Quotes

Buchi Emecheta — Nigerian Novelist born on July 21, 1944,

Buchi Emecheta OBE is a Nigerian novelist who has published over 20 books, including Second-Class Citizen, The Bride Price, The Slave Girl and The Joys of Motherhood. 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…… 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.".. (wikipedia)

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.

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

A hungry man is an angry one.

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

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 the Third World.

Buchi Emecheta Quotes

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