Writing Africa: Archiving African and Black Literature

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  • Tributes flood in for legendary Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta

    Tributes flood in for legendary Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta

    Buchi Emecheta the author of numerous novels passed away in London, UK on January 25th 2017. Tributes from all over the African literary community have been shared on social media. Florence Onyebuchi “Buchi” Emecheta OBE (21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) was a Nigerian novelist, based in Britain since 1960,[1] who had also written…