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1/ #BuchiEmecheta was born Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta on July 21, 1944 , in (Yaba) Lagos. Her mother, Alice Ogbanje Ojebeta Emecheta was a former slave girl, sold into slavery by her brother to a relative to raise money for silk head ties for his coming-of age dance.
2/When her mistress died, Ogbanje Emecheta returned home to freedom. Ogbanje Ojebeta, like her alterego in the novel she inspires, trained as a seamstress. She married Jeremy Nwabudinke, a railway worker.
3/Buchi’s parents moved from Umuezeokolo, Odanta, Ibusa ,(now Delta State), their ancestral home, to Lagos to seek their fortune. They had two children, Buchi and her younger brother, Adolphus Chisingali Emecheta.
