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Buchi Emecheta: An Overview - English
URL: http://www.postcolonialweb.org/nigeria/emecheta/emechetaov.html

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Emecheta, Buchi. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/em/Emecheta.html

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Nigerian novelist, b. Lagos as Florence Onye Buchi Emecheta. In 1962 she accompanied her husband to England, where she had five children. After leaving her husband, she remained in England and wrote novels about the struggles of African women moving from traditional to modern roles in societies where men have little respect for them. Her first two novels, drawn from her own experiences, In the Ditch (1972) and Second Class Citizen (1974), were published together as Adah’s Story (1983). Other novels are set in Nigeria and are highly critical of the treatment of African women. These include The Bride Price (1976), the ironically titled Joys of Motherhood (1979), The Family (1990), and Kehinde (1994). She also writes children’s stories.

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Literary Encyclopedia: Emecheta, Buchi - English
URL: http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1424

Buchi Emecheta is one of Africa’s most prolific writers with 20 books, including novels, plays, poetry, essays and children’s books to her credit. Her greatest contribution, however, is in her novels which have served primarily as Emecheta’s “vehicle of catharsis” and thus the healing of a life in England, the early part of which, the author herself has described as “very, very hard…both financially and emotionally.” She contends that her books are about “survival…just like [her] own life."

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Buchi Emecheta: The Joys of Motherhood - English
URL: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/emecheta.html

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Buchi Emecheta - English
URL: http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Emech.html

On July 21, 1944 in Yaba near Lagos, Nigeria, Buchi Emecheta was born to Jeremy Nwabudike and Alice Okwuekwu Emecheta. At a young age, Emecheta was orphaned and she spent her early childhood years being educated at a missionary school. In 1960, at the age of sixteen, Emecheta was married to Sylvester Onwordi, a student to whom she had been engaged since she was eleven. After their marriage, Sylvester and Buchi moved to London. Over the course of her six year marriage, Emecheta gave birth to five children.

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Emecheta - English
URL: http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/emecheta.htm

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Buchi Emecheta was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1944. Her father, a railroad worker, died when she was young, but she managed to continue her education at the Methodist Girls High School in Lagos. When she was 16, she married a student named Sylvester Onwordi, and moved to London with him. The couple had five children together before she left him in 1966. In 1970, she enrolled at the University of London, where she received an honors degree in sociology in 1974.

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