Buchi Emecheta – 50 Greatest Nigerians of All Time? (Video)
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This video features: Buchi Emecheta. Does she make the cut as one of the 50 Greatest Nigerians of All Time?
Dr Buchi Emecheta is an African novelist who has published books, plays and shorts.
Her written work on child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education have won her considerable critical acclaim and honorary awards.
BUCHI EMECHETA
Dr. Buchi Emecheta was born in Lagos Nigeria on July 21, 1944.
When she was young, Buchi spent her early childhood at an all-girl’s missionary school. Buchi received a full scholarship to the Methodist Girls School, where she remained until she was married to Sylvester Onwordi, a student to whom she had been engaged since she was eleven. Buchi was sixteen years old.
Dr. Emecheta left her husband at age 22 and supported all five children while earning a BSC degree in sociology at the University of London. She also wrote prolifically, publishing articles about Black British life in several journals and newspapers. She published her first book of shorts, In the Ditch, in 1972.
Dr. Emecheta worked as a library office for the British Museum in London. Thereafter, she was a youth worker and sociologist for the Inner London Education Authority. She then visited the United States and was a community worker in Camden, New Jersey.
From 1982 to 1983 Emecheta, together with her journalist son Sylvester, ran the Ogwugwu Afor Publishing Company, whose intent was to promote and financially support Black artists.
Our list of 50 Greatest Nigerians in History includes (but is not limited to:)
Abike Dabiri
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Agbani Darego
Ahmadu Bello
Bishop Ajayi Crowther
Alex Ekwueme
Aliko Dangote
Babatunde Olatunji
Bamanga Tukur
Ben Murray
Ben Okri
Bimbo Odukoya
Biship Francis Arinze
Bola Ige
Buchi Emecheta
Charles Soludo
Chief Osita Osadebe
Chinua Achebe
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Chioma Ajunwa
Chris Abani
Chris Anyawu
Dele Momodu
Dick Tiger
Dr Alban
Dora Akunyili
Ebenezer Obey
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
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Gani Fawehinmi
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Grace Williams
Hakeem Olajuwon
Ibrahim Gambari
Ifueko Omoigui
Jimi Agbaje
JJ Okocha
King Sunny Ade (Sunday Adeniyi)
Michael Adenuga
Moshood Kashimawo (MKO) Abiola
Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Nuhu Ribadu
Nwankwo Kanu
Obafemi Awolowo (Awo!)
Obiageli Ezekwesili
Odemegwu Ojukwu
Okey Ndibe
Olusegun Obasanjo
Patrick Utomi
Philip Emeagwali
Sade Adu
Samuel Peter
Seal
Tunde Baiyewu
Wole Soyinka
Yakubu Gowon
Muhammadu Buhari
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