The Slave Girl

Name: The Slave Girl
ISBN: 9780807609521

Buchi Emecheta

179 pages · about 3 hours
First published 1977
7 editions

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1 About this book

The Slave Girl is a 1977 novel by Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta that was published in the UK by Allison and Busby and in the US by George Braziller. It won the Jock Campbell Award from the New Statesman in 1978. The novel was Emecheta's fourth book; it was dedicated to her editor Margaret Busby.

The Slave Girl was reissued in 2018 by Omenala Press.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Nigeria
Slavery
Enslaved women
Social conditions

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).

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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