₦airaland Forum

Born on the 21st of July 1944, Buchi Emecheta,the Nigerian trailblazing Novelist, passed on at the age of 72 in London.
The renowned Nigerian author has published over 20 books, including Second-Class Citizen, The Bride Price , The Slave Girl and The Joys of Motherhood.




Considered by many to be one of the most important female African writers, she is greatly respected and admired for her creative and narrative writing about African women's experiences in Africa and in Great Britain.
Here are 9 quotes from Nigeria's iconic literary figure:


1. “A man is never ugly".


2. “The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry,
perched like birds ready to fly off.”



3. “A hungry man is an angry one.”

4. “I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from
the Third World or the developing or whatever


5. "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."



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



7. "In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and
prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today."


8. "I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story."



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