Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta was a Nigerian writer who worked across novels, plays, autobiography and children's books. She is best known for Second Class Citizen (1974), and her other novels include The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977) and The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Her fiction often turns on tensions between tradition and modernity, and on the lives of women and children.