The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, …

- Buchi Emecheta

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

- Buchi Emecheta

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

- Buchi Emecheta

I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.

- Buchi Emecheta

I'm not just a feminist - I'm a feminist plus.

- Buchi Emecheta

Women should not be suppressed because they are women, because they have children and because of men. Then I am a feminist. But when it comes to the …

- Buchi Emecheta

But who made the law that we should not hope in our daughters? We women subscribe to that law more than anyone. Until we change all this, it is still…

- Buchi Emecheta

I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

- Buchi Emecheta

I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I vie…

- Buchi Emecheta