Head Above Water

Name: Head Above Water
ISBN: 9781911428312

Buchi Emecheta

243 pages · about 4 hours
First published 1986
7 editions

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1 About this book

Head above Water is a 1986 non-fiction book by Nigerian novelist Buchi Emecheta. It was published in 1986 in the African Writers Series by Heinemann and has been described as "anecdotal autobiography."

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Authors
Nigerians
Biography
Authors, biography
Great britain, biography
Nigeria, biography

2 About Buchi Emecheta

1944–2017

Buchi Emecheta ( ; born Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta; 21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) was a Nigerian writer, whose work includes novels, plays, autobiography, and children's books. She was best known for her 1974 novel, Second Class Citizen. Her other novels include The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977), and The Joys of Motherhood (1979).

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