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Name: The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta
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Author: Buchi Emecheta
ISBN: 9780807609514

By: Buchi Emecheta

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CategoryFiction
LanguageEnglish
Pages168
Published1976
File size687 KB
FormatPDF
ISBN9780807609514

Key ideas from the book

The novel centers on a modern Nigerian girl who rebels against traditional marriage customs.
It presents a conflict between individual choice and marriage expectations.
The book offers a perspective on women’s lives in a Nigerian context.
It connects with Emecheta’s wider interest in identity and the lives women build for themselves and their families.

About The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta’s The Bride Price is described as a story about a modern Nigerian girl who rebels against traditional marriage customs. Its focus brings personal choice into view alongside expectations around marriage.

Emecheta, born to Ibo parents in Nigeria, is known for writing about Black women seeking to sustain their identities and build viable lives for themselves and their families. Readers interested in Nigerian fiction, women’s lives, and the pressures of tradition may find this novel useful.

About Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017) was a Nigerian-born British novelist whose fiction explored gender, family, migration, colonialism, and the social pressures faced by African women. Born in Lagos, she moved to London in 1962 and drew on her experiences of marriage, motherhood, education, and independence in both fiction and memoir. Her best-known works include Second-Class Citizen, The Joys of Motherhood, The Bride Price, In the Ditch, and Destination Biafra. She also recounted her life in the memoir…

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Topics: African literature Fiction Nigerian Literature Women's literature

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