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Google Doodle celebrates late Nigerian author, Buchi Emecheta

Damilola A.
By Damilola A.
Published: July 21, 2019
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Google Doodle celebrated Nigerian author, Florence Onyebuchi “Buchi” Emecheta on what would have been her 75th birthday.

She published 16 novels, including: The Ditch, Second-Class Citizen, Slave Girl, The Bride Price, and The Joys of Motherhood.

Emecheta suffered a stroke in 2010, and she died in London on January 25, 2017, aged 72.

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Born to Igbo parents in the Lagos suburb of Yaba on this day in 1944, Florence Onyebuchi (Buchi) Emecheta moved to the UK in 1962, with her husband and first two children. She had another two, and, at the age of 22, pregnant with a fifth, left her husband and set off on her own.

She supported her five children by working at a library, pursued her sociology degree, all while working tirelessly on her novels—usually at the kitchen table as her children played. Her son Sylvester Onwordi recalls: “As an immigrant single mother battling poverty in the slums of 1960s London, she would draw her five small children around her, light candles, and delight us with what she called her ‘Moonlight tales’—stories she had learned at twilight by the light of a hurricane lamp from her aunts in the village, or imbibed at her father’s knee during her family’s internal exile in Lagos. For the young Nigerian girl who dreamed even then of being a writer, these tales were like umbilical threads connecting the lonely orphan she became with the lost world of mythical ancestors and her beloved home town of Ibusa.”

Although she resisted labeling herself a “feminist” author, much of Emecheta’s writing addresses issues of gender and race.

“I work toward the liberation of women. My books are about survival, just like my own life,” she said.

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During the 1970s and ’80s, she worked as a lecturer and founded the Ogwugwu Afor Publishing Company with her son. She was named an Officer of the British Empire in 2005, a remarkable accomplishment for someone who faced such adversity.

“Just keep trying and trying,” Emecheta once said. “If you have the determination and commitment, you will succeed.”

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