Tag: Buchi Emecheta

Wilfred Okiche December 31, 2017

#YNaija2017Review: Alex Ekwueme, Buchi Emecheta, Maitama Sule, Eric Arubayi… 10 notable deaths of 2017

May their souls rest in peace. Eric Arubayi On February 11, thirty-three-year-old gospel music live act and former Idols West Africa fan favourite Eric Arubayi passed away suddenly at the…

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Editor February 20, 2017

LONG READ: Buchi Emecheta, Eric Arubayi and how to remember our dead

by Wilfred Okiche The evening of February 11, news began to filter in that thirty three year old gospel music live act and former Idols West Africa fan favourite Eric…

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Op-ed Editor January 27, 2017

Wilfred Okiche: On Buchi Emecheta and the joys of motherhood [NEW VOICES]

by Wilfred Okiche My first encounter with Buchi Emecheta’s work was as a secondary school student growing up in Lagos, anxiously waiting for my sister to be done with the…

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Op-ed Editor January 26, 2017

The Thread: “Writers never die” | An outpouring of emotion accompanies the death of African literary legend, Buchi Emecheta

Buch Emecheta is dead. She died in her sleep yesterday at the age of 72 in London. She was a Nigerian novelist as far back as the 60's. She authored…

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Op-ed Editor October 12, 2016

Harmony Levin: Balancing up on feminism – the Naija perspective [NEXT]

by Harmony Levin “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn…

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