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“... In the summer of​ 1975, the Nigerian-born British novelist Buchi Emecheta went missing for a day. She tucked £10 into her purse and went to Buckingham Palace to watch the Changing of the Guard, then went to look at the glossy black door of 10 Downing Street for the first time. For lunch, she ate what she fancied – salad, cheesecake and not one, not two, but three glasses of bitter lemon – and for once had not cooked any of it ...”

“... Buchi Emecheta’s novel is dedicated to her 1981 students at the University of Calabar. Double Yoke is a tale of student life at that university and evidently the teacher has learned a great deal from her pupils, pulling out passages from their essays and exercises to make her own point about their lives and ideas ...”

“... of genocide by enforcing starvation. Fictional accounts of the war aren’t lacking, though. Buchi Emecheta published hers, Destination Biafra, in 1982. And recently there have been several more, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s stupendous Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), which has a bibliography of thirty books about the war.Chigozie Obioma’s ...”

“... This prose-poem holds an irrational attraction. Much more rational, more Shavian, is Buchi Emecheta’s story of her imaginary country, Shavi. It is on the edge of the Sahara and has something in common with the tribal kingdoms of northern Nigeria, as seen by the more romantic and xenophilic writers of the south – like Miss ...”

“... momentarily out of obsession. He has been touched into that awareness by the pathos of strangers. Buchi Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen (1974) is a novel about the early phases of London’s gradual, uneven and incomplete postwar transition to a multi-ethnic metropolis. Adah leaves Lagos to join her husband, Francis, in London, where he has taken and ...”