Event overview
A new exhibition space in the Library dedicated to Buchi Emecheta OBE
‘I as a writer cannot afford to tell my people what they want to hear.’
- Buchi Emecheta
Featuring :
Opening addresses by Margaret Busby OBE (Publisher, Writer, Editor, Broadcaster), Sylvester Onwordi (The Buchi Emecheta Foundation) and Leo Appleton (Director of Library Services, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Readings from Emecheta’s works by Angelique Golding
With an exhibition by Present Futures: ‘Becoming an archive’ is part of an ongoing project presenting the archive as a space of becoming for women and non binary people of colour.
Florence Onyebuchi “Buchi” Emecheta OBE (21 July 1944–25 January 2017) was a powerful and defiant Nigerian British writer, teacher, mother, librarian and ‘African feminist’. She wrote prolifically authoring over 20 books, including: Second Class Citizen (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977) and The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Emecheta’s writing defies easy categorization and is relevant to many communities: Womanists read her fierce motherhood and solidarity; Feminists, her bold independence. Queer readers pick up on her community building. Anti-racist activists celebrate her great pride in her culture and blackness. She is held up as a writer of both Nigerian and Black British identity and continues to inspire contemporary postcolonial writers. Bravery, outspokenness and determination shoot through her novels, plays, autobiography, children’s literature and critical writing.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Oct 2019 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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