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Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone e...

Second Class Citizen

racism

She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been cond...

Second Class Citizen

racism

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She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.

Second Class Citizen

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A hungry man is an angry one.

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Born: 1944-08-14

Died: 2017-01-25

Florence Onyebuchi "Buchi" Emecheta OBE (July 21, 1944 – 25 January 25, 2017) was a Nigerian-born novelist. |Buchi Emechetal also wrote plays and an autobiography, as well as works for children. She was the author of more than 20 books, including Second Class Citizen (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977) and The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Most of her early novels were published by Allison and Busby, where her editor was Margaret Busby.More

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