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The Bride Price
The Bride Price: The Bride Price is both an easy and enlightening read. Buchi Emecheta deftly captures the girl's adolescent fragility and power as she struggles to carve out her identity amongst the dictates of patriarchy, which her mother upholds to [... more]
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The New Tribe (African Writers Series)
Author: Buchi Emecheta Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9780435912048 ISBN: 0435912046 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: 2000-12-29 [... more]
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The Joys of Motherhood (AWS African Writers Series)
The Bitterness of Motherhood: Buchi Emecheta, writes with piercing teeth and gouging fingers: irony, sarcasm, and anger are her appendages: orphan, arranged marriage object, immigrant to England, five children by 22, marriage terminator, single mother [... more]
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Head Above Water (African Writers Series)
Author: Buchi Emecheta Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823 EAN: 9780435909932 ISBN: 0435909932 Number Of Pages: 229 Publication Date: 1994-02-22 [... more]
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In the Ditch (African Writers Series)
Excellent Book!: Buchi Emecheta is a wonderful writer! This is the second book of hers that I have read. The books description "A lone Nigerian mother's determination to carve a place for herself against the odds." is a very fitting description. [... more]
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The Slave Girl: A Novel
thought provoking: Once again Ms Emecheta has written a thought provoking and captivating book about domestic slavery in Nigeria. The setting is in Nigeria in the early 20th Century and wound around significant events of the time such as the Influenza [... more]
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Second-Class Citizen
To be what you are, and not what you are supposed to be: "Second Class Citizen" is the story of Adah, a resourceful, intelligent girl from Nigeria who comes to Great Britain shortly after Nigeria gained independence in 1960. Going to Great [... more]
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The Rape of Shavi
Story of a rape of a culture: A review of another of the author's books used the term "deceptively simple". I couldn't put it better about this story of a "civilized" culture happening upon a simpler, sheltered people. The story [... more]
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Joys of Motherhood
The Bitterness of Motherhood: Buchi Emecheta, writes with piercing teeth and gouging fingers: irony, sarcasm, and anger are her appendages: orphan, arranged marriage object, immigrant to England, five children by 22, marriage terminator, single mother [... more]
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Double Yoke
Enough yokes for scrambled eggs: Double Yoke is not simply an African novel, it is a timeless classic. The story of course is one of seemingly simplistic ideals: women in Postcolonial Africa have to bear the double burden of trying to remain culturally [... more]
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The Wrestling Match
Excellent coming of age story: For the first few pages of this book, I expected to dislike it - its language was awkward, much like a poor translation. However, once the story developed its own momentum, the language became natural, pleasant to read. The [... more]
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The Bride Price
Abridged version: I was disappointed with this product (although I have had occasion to use similar versions of other texts before and I'm sure it is excellent) because I had not realised that I had purchased an abridged version - and I needed the whole [... more]
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