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"Typical Igbo psychology; men never do wrong, only the women; they have to beg for forgiveness, because they are bought, paid for and must remain like that, silent, obedient slaves."
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"When people are not educated enough for the job market, it is like a time bomb ticking away which could explode in the streets."
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Buchi Emecheta
Buchi Emecheta
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Buchi Emecheta was a Nigerian writer, whose work includes novels, plays, autobiography, and children's books. She was best known for her 1974 novel, Second Class Citizen. Her other novels include The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977), and The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Emecheta has been characterized as "the first successful black woman novelist living in Britain after 1948".
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"Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through Gods grace, above water."
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"Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us."
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"I thought at one time I would be thrown out. But I was not."
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"I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as a writer and also as an oral communicator."
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"In all my novels… I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today."
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