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‘The Many Triumphs of Buchi Emecheta’ explores Emecheta’s life and impact on African feminist writing.
Ijedike JebomaDecember 10, 2021
In Kehinde, Buchi Emecheta used brutal ‘documentary-style’ realism to showcase the plights of women in patriarchal societies, and often, the question that lay beneath was, what would our world be if women were freed from toxic gender roles?
Moboluwajidide JosephNovember 29, 2021
The Joys of Motherhood could be considered as one of the forebears of feminist issues on reproductive justice and culture within the rich Nigerian literary tradition.
Sujarani MathewDecember 10, 2021
Understanding Buchi Emecheta’s ideology in her works around feminism and womanism.
Ope AdedejiMay 17, 2021
I couldn’t see writing in my future, despite leaving Nigeria for a creative writing course. Then I read Buchi Emecheta.
Oreoluwa George-TaylorJuly 12, 2021
Looking back at how my body has changed over the past 15 years, I realized that I already had all the things I was waiting to be ‘thin enough’ for.
Elizabeth O. IBen-iheanachoOctober 22, 2021
Critic and author of ‘Achebe’s Women’, Elizabeth Ben-Iheanacho, wishes more authors appreciated the productive purpose of criticism: ‘Criticism helps us grow. It opens up new dimensions and hidden meanings that we may not have been aware of in the course of writing.’
Chika UnigweNovember 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.’
