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is a Nigerian writer with a PhD in English from the University of Leiden, Holland. She is the author of several books and short stories including On Black Sisters Street and Better Never Than Late .
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3 Stories
is a Nigerian writer with a PhD in English from the University of Leiden, Holland. She is the author of several books and short stories including On Black Sisters Street and Better Never Than Late .
CHIKA UNIGWE
MAY 24 2026
CHIKA UNIGWE•MAY 24 2026
Emeka has no business dying now. He and Afuajuba still have unfinished business. She wants to know why. What was so broken in their relationship that he needed to have an affair?
CHIKA UNIGWE
NOVEMBER 17 2021
CHIKA UNIGWE•NOVEMBER 17 2021
Having been brought up in a culture of storytelling, Buchi Emecheta would have been aware, from a young age, of ways in which her local tradition marginalized women and reinforced male supremacy.
CHIKA UNIGWE
NOVEMBER 12 2021
CHIKA UNIGWE•NOVEMBER 12 2021
Author of On Black Sisters Street and ‘Head Above Water: Scanning Buchi Emecheta’s Oeuvre’, Chika Unigwe, believes it is important for an author to know as much as possible about the characters they are writing about: ‘to write a character well, one must treat that character with integrity and respect, and that means knowing as much as there is to know about the character.’