Emecheta, Buchi (Personal Name)

Her In the Ditch, 1972.

Dictionary of African Biography, accessed April 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Emecheta, Buchi; Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta; fiction writer, educator, autobiographer/memoirist; born 1944 in Lagos, Nigeria; BS in sociology (1974), MA in social education (1976) and PhD (1991) from University of London; worked at the British Museum (1960s); youth worker for the Inner London Education Authority (1970s); her novel The Slave Girl (1977) won the 1979 Jock Campbell Award; her book The Joys of Motherhood (1979) was assigned in college classrooms; lecturer at Pennsylvania State University, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Yale University and University of London; was awarded the Order of the British Empire (2005))

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed January 18, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Emecheta, Buchi; fiction writer, essayist, children's book writer, illustrator, autobiographer, memoirist; born in 1944 near Lagos, Nigeria; sociology degree from the University of London (1974); novels include, In the Ditch, Second Class Citizen, The Bride Price, The Slave Girl (1972, 1974, 1976, 1977); published best-known work, The Joys of Motherhood (1979); published Destination Biafra, a novel about civil war in Nigeria (1982); revealed a tale of colonization inThe Rape of Shavi (1983); founded the publishing company OgwugwuAfor specializing in African literature; explored theme of immigrant experience with novel Gwendolen (1989); a more recent novel is Kehinde (1994); honors include, the Order of the British Empire)

The Guardian (online), Buchi Emecheta, pioneering Nigerian novelist, dies aged 72, 26 January 2017, viewed online 26 January 2017 (died on Wednesday [Jan. 25], in London, age 72)

b. 1944 near Lagos, Nigeria; emigrated to London in 1962