Summary of Emecheta's The Bride Price

The bride's price Buchi Mecha's bridal price shows Odia's life, the difficulties they have experienced together, and their own experiences. But the most prominent role is Aku-Nna Odia, the protagonist of the story. Life is difficult for her because she is a unmarried girl. In addition to the difficulties brought about by her father's death, Aku-Nna also faces the cultural mission of marrying a social woman so family members can get the price of the bride I will.

Buchi Emecheta OBE (1944 - 2017) is a British - based Nigerian novelist who publishes over 20 books including second - class citizen (1974), bridal price (1976), slave girl (1977) I will. ) And mother's pleasure. (1979). Slavery, childbirth, her child's freedom, female self-reliance and freedom by education have won great acclaim and honor including the British Empire Medal Elleke Boehmer (see Cullhed, 2006: 79). The same patriarchal support single - identity, growth model, birth, and all blood ... will promote the form of consciousness of a particular singles or "one eye". The problem is the diversity of the literary system. Gerrit Olivier pointed out, "It is not uncommon to hear scholars and politicians talk about" South African literature ", but the basic condition also features diversity and even division."

Buchi Emecheta was born in Lagos, Nigeria on July 21, 1944. She moved to the UK in 1960 and started working as a librarian. In 1970 she studied at the University of London and got a degree. Sociology During the period started in 1970, Emecheta worked as a community worker in North London. Like her earlier feminist writer, her work mainly focuses on politics of race, gender, and gender, based on her personal experience. Her first novel "In the Ditch" was published in 1972 and published in "New Politician" magazine. This novel, along with her second novel, Second-class Citizen, provides a prospect of the living of poor Nigerian women. And it is trying to integrate into one of the biggest cities in Europe (Biography: Buchi Emecheta, 2015)