Buchi Emecheta

BUCHI EMECHETA: THE NIGERIAN VOICE OF WOMANHOOD SOUMYA.S J Guest Lecturer in English KMSM DB College, Sasthamcotta, Kerala, India Email: sjsoumyaa@gmail.com Mob: 08606432701 ABSTRACT Buchi Emecheta is one of the growing numbers of African women writers who have set their authorial eyes on the conditions of women living both on their home continent and abroad. She takes

Buchi Emecheta is one of the African writers who tremendously portrayed the issues that are related to mainstream African women’s experience. Many of his poems throw light on the plight of women in African cultures and she uses characterisation and theme as tools to develop her heroines. The scarcity of female novelists stands as a reason for the male writers and critics of African literature to lack the feminine point of view for over a long period of time. In every parts of the world, the institution

be fulfilled in herself, a full human being, not anybody’s appendage? She prayed desperately”. The Author The novel ‘Joys of Motherhood’ was written by Buchi Emecheta. She was born on the 21th of July 1994, in Lagos, Nigeria. She was born to Igbo parents from Ibuza, Delta state, Nigeria. Because of the gender inequality in Ibuza at that time, Buchi was not allowed to go to school while her brother did. But after persuading her parents, she was allowed to attend school. She was just nine when her father

Race and Ethnicity of Afro-African Indigenous People: A Study of Selected Novels of Buchi Emecheta and Flora Nwapa G. Sankar The union of man and woman is universally and socially acknowledged by the institution of marriage. It is one of the oldest rituals to be practiced even today in every parts of the world. Marriage is an important part of the traditional African society and is one of the largely reflected issues in African literature. According to Lauretta Ngcobo, in her essay entitled “African

Her books, which are published in several countries, have helped to enlighten readers about the role of women in Nigerian culture. In, The Bride Price, Emecheta deals not only with the subordinate role that the female is forced to acquire in the society but also the hypocrisy of the whole set up where on the one hand, a daughter is claimed to be the father’s wealth and the most prized possession and on the

in some aspects of life, while being dissimilar in other aspects. This idea is clearly exemplified when one compares their own experience and knowledge of culture in America to that description and portrayal of Nigerian culture as seen through Buchi Emecheta's novel, The Wrestling Match.      Both of our societies can be looked at as parallel in how teenagers are typically stereotyped, rivalry among towns/villages, and the attainment of manhood or maturity through

Buchi Emecheta tells of a woman's search for independence in her book Kehinde. The story begins as Albert and Kehinde Okolo have been living in London for 18 years as a couple. When Albert's sisters begin pressuring him to return to Nigeria, Kehinde resists the idea as their two children have never been to Nigeria and plus the fact that she found out that she is pregnant. But because of Albert's insistence, she decided to get an abortion. Albert then leaves and Kehinde remains behind to sell the

Everything that points to cultural studies or criticism portrays it as a complex theory which derives its strength from an uncanny sense of incertitude, as it covers a wide expanse of the areas of literary criticism. To begin with, a basic understanding is quite appropriate. It is this kind of complexity in question that caused Angela McRobbie to talk of the “messiness of cultural studies” (722). By this is meant, most probably, that its roots are too deeply convoluted and intertwined in a single

into a small apartment verses the typical huts made of mud and leaves. In relation, the British saw the domestic slaves as illegal. Nwokocha Agbadi knows how important slaves are to his village household, but he also wishes to please the British. Emecheta writes that eventually, he “stop[s] dealing in slaves” and “offer [s] freedom to the ones in his household. He even join [s] a group of leaders who encouraged slaves to return to their places of origin….

The Bride Price is a novel written by Nigerian writer Bunchi Emecheta, which addresses the problems of women in post-colonial Nigeria. Published in 1976, it illustrates the life of the Odia family and the hardships that they go through. Bunchi Emecheta is successful in portraying the difficulties that women faced in that time and place. The protagonist, Aku-nna Odia, is an unmarried teenage girl who is kidnapped by Okoboshi Obidi 's family and forced to marry him. Later in the novel, she is “rescued”