Buchi Emecheta bibliography

The bibliography of Buchi Emechta includes plays, autobiographies, poetry and novels by Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta.

Literature

Novels

• In the Ditch (1972). Allison & Busby (ISBN 9780850312591)

  It was her first published novel and was closely based on her own life. It portrays the story of Adah, a young Nigerian single mother living in London.^[1]

• Second Class Citizen (1974)^[2]
• The Bride Price (1976)^[2][3]
• The Slave Girl (1977); winner of the New Statesman's 1978 Jock Campbell Award^[2]
• The Joys of Motherhood (1979)^[2]
• The Moonlight Bride (1981)^[3]
• Destination Biafra (1982)^[2]
• Naira Power (1982)^[3]
• Adah's Story [In the Ditch/Second-Class Citizen] (London: Allison & Busby, 1983).
• The Rape of Shavi (1983)^[2]
• Double Yoke (1982)^[2][4]
• A Kind of Marriage (London: Macmillan, 1986); Pacesetter Novels series.
• Gwendolen (1989). Published in the US as The Family^[5]
• Kehinde (1994)^[2]
• The New Tribe (2000)^[2]

Autobiography

• Head above Water (1984; 1986)^[3][6]
• "Crossing Boundaries", in Ferdinand Dennis, Naseem Khan (eds), Voices of the Crossing: The Impact of Britain on Writers from Asia, the Caribbean and Africa, London: Serpent's Tail, 1998, p. 93.^[7]

Children's/Young adults' books

• Titch the Cat (illustrated by Thomas Joseph; 1979)^[3][6]
• Nowhere to Play (illustrated by Peter Archer; 1980)^[2][6]
• The Wrestling Match (1981)^[3]

Plays

• Juju Landlord (episode of Crown Court), Granada Television, 1975.^[8][9]
• A Kind of Marriage, BBC television, 1976.^[2][9]
• Family Bargain, BBC Television, 1987.^[10]

Articles and shorter writings

• Introduction and comments to Our Own Freedom, photographs by Maggie Murray; 1981^[11][12]
• The Black Scholar, November–December 1985, p. 51.
• "Feminism with a small 'f'!" in Kirsten Holst Petersen (ed.), Criticism and Ideology: Second African Writers' Conference, Stockholm 1988, Uppsala: Scandinanvian Institute of African Studies, 1988, pp. 173–181.
• Essence magazine, August 1990, p. 50.
• The New York Times Book Review, 29 April 1990.
• Publishers Weekly, 16 February 1990, p. 73; reprinted 7 February 1994, p. 84.
• World Literature Today, Autumn 1994, p. 867.