Buchi Emecheta

...a graceful, touching, ironically titled tale. - John Updike A new edition of her classic novel to coincide with the publication of her other works in the African Writers Series. Nnu Ego is a woman devoted to her children, giving them all her energy, all her worldly possessions, indeed, all her life to them -- with the result that she finds herself friendless and alone in middle age. This story of a young mother's struggles in 1950s Lagos is a powerful commentary on polygamy, patriarchy, and women's changing roles in urban Nigeria.

The Joys of Motherhood

Tells the story of Adah, a Nigerian woman who moves to Great Britain with her husband and the struggles she goes through being black in a white society and a woman in a patriarchal culture.

Second-class Citizen

Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta

After living in London for several years with a prestigious banking job, Kehinde agrees to return to her native Nigeria with her husband and children, but must decide whether or not to stay when her husband takes a new wife and wants her to be the subserv

Kehinde

"Her graphically detailed pictures of tribal life make the novel memorable."—Chicago Tribune

A Novel

The Slave Girl

Aku-nna, a young Ibo girl schooled in her people's rituals and beliefs, undergoes kidnapping, forced betrothal, and near-shame out of love for Chike, son of a former slave

The Bride Price

"Nnu Ego, filha de um grande líder africano, é enviada como esposa para um homem na capital da Nigéria. Determinada a realizar o sonho de ser mãe e, assim, tornar-se uma “mulher completa”, submete-se a condições de vida precárias e enfrenta praticamente sozinha a tarefa de educar e sustentar os filhos. Entre a lavoura e a cidade, entre as tradições dos igbos e a influência dos colonizadores, ela luta pela integridade da família e pela manutenção dos valores de seu povo."--

As alegrias da maternidade

Nnu Ego, filha de um grande líder africano, é enviada como esposa para um homem na capital da Nigéria. Determinada a realizar o sonho de ser mãe e, assim, tornar-se uma "mulher completa", submete-se a condições de vida precárias e enfrenta praticamente sozinha a tarefa de educar e sustentar os filhos. Entre a lavoura e a cidade, entre as tradições dos igbos e a influência dos colonizadores, ela luta pela integridade da família e pela manutenção dos valores de seu povo.

First published in 1976, this great literary classic follows a young Nigerian woman who rejects the patriarchal traditions of her culture to find love and happiness in the western world. With pure honesty and subtle protest, Buchi Emecheta chronicles the unfair pressure and ultimate demise that women often suffer in Nigerian lore.

A vivid and heart-breaking account of the
camaraderie and helplessness, the smells and sounds of the utter poverty that still exists within the Welfare State.
Here is the all too human drama of Adah, young, black, fending for her small children on her own in a London full of poverty and indifference - and of the social workers who tread the frayed tightrope between human charity and human rights... It's a story told with humour, without rancour - but all the more moving for that.

In The Ditch

A Jamaican girl joins her parents in London at age eleven and makes formidable adjustments and choices to overcome the limitations of her family life.

The Family

Adah, a mesma protagonista de Cidadã de segunda classe, tem que criar e sustentar sozinha os cinco filhos, vivendo no subúrbio de Londres, em um lugar que ela chama de “o fundo do poço”. Tentando manter seu trabalho diário e suas aulas noturnas em busca de um diploma, ela se vê às voltas com o serviço de assistência social, que lhes classifica como “família-problema”. É onde Adah encontra uma causa comum com seus vizinhos brancos da classe trabalhadora e sua luta contra um sistema social que parece destinado a oprimir todas as mulheres.

No fundo do poço

Joys of Motherhood

Zwanzig Säcke Muschelgeld

Rosemary Border

A Nigerian girl is allowed to finish her education because a diploma will enhance her bride price, but she then rebels against traditional marriage customs.

Stephane Robolin

First published in 1979, this feminist literary classic follows Nnu Ego, a Nigerian woman struggling in a patriarchal society, as she, finally becoming a mother, must protect her children during World War II after she is abandoned by her husband and her people. Reissue.

De liefde van een Nigeriaans meisje voor een dorpsonderwijzer maakt inbreuk op de heersende tradities.

De prijs van de bruid

Een Nigeriaanse vrouw weigert zich nog langer te schikken in het traditionele rolpatroon van het Afrikaanse huwelijk.

De zegeningen van het moederschap

After living in London for several years with a prestigious banking job, Kehinde agrees to return to her native Nigeria with her husband and children, but must decide whether or not to stay when her husband takes a new wife and wants her to be the subservient wife.

Annotation "Her graphically detailed pictures of tribal life make the novel memorable."-Chicago Tribune.

Two Nigerian girls overhear some elders making secret preparations for a marriage.

Buchi Emecheta

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