Name: Second-class Citizen
ISBN: 9780807610664

Buchi Emecheta

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

Marion

The concept of ‘whiteness’ could cover a multitude of sins.

Short auto fiction on Emcheta life in nigeria and eventually to United Kingdom where she had her start as a writer. Someone called her type of work “Afrogrief” I couldn’t agree more no one writes pain like her but uniquely African woman pain 

"Adah, a woman from the Ibo tribe, moves to England to live with her Nigerian student husband. She soon discovers that life for a young Nigerian woman living in London in the 1960s is grim. Rejected by British society and thwarted by her husband, who expects her to be subservient to him, she is forced to face up to life as a second-class citizen."--Back cover.

Second-class Citizen

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