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The Bride Price is a 1976 novel by Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta. It was first published in the UK by Allison & Busby , and in the USA by George Braziller . Centered on women during the Nigerian postcolonial era, Emecheta dedicated the book to her mother, Alice Ogbanje Emecheta.
From 1969 to 1976, she was a youth worker and sociologist for the Inner London Education Authority, [7] [29] and from 1976 to 1978 she worked as a community worker in Camden, North London, [5] [7] while continuing to produce further novels at Allison and Busby, with Margaret Busby as her editor [1] – The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl ...
This sequel to Emecheta's 1972 novel In the Ditch was written after Emecheta had left her unhappy marriage and was raising her five children as a single mother. On the dedication page to Second Class Citizen, the author references "my dear children, Florence, Sylvester, Jake, Christy and Alice, without whose sweet background noises this book would not have been written".
The Slave Girl is a 1977 novel by Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta [1] that was published in the UK by Allison and Busby and in the US by George Braziller.It won the Jock Campbell Award from the New Statesman in 1978.
Chaos ensues after bride books one taxi to take 100 wedding guests home. Brittany Miller. January 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM.
Winter brings less daylight and colder temperatures, which can disrupt sleep. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is more common in winter due to the lack of sunlight, causing sleep disturbances.
The People's Bachelor (1972); The Bride (1987) Austin Bukenya (born 10 February 1944) is a Ugandan poet, playwright, novelist and academic administrator. [ 1 ] He is the author of the novel The People's Bachelor , [ 2 ] and a play, The Bride . [ 3 ]
Me with two of my children, Lana and Matthew. My kids have taught me to look at work in a completely new way.