# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/buchi-emecheta
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:17:06.975Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/buchi-emecheta"
name: "Buchi Emecheta"
slug: "buchi-emecheta"
description: "Buchi Emecheta 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). Emecheta has been characterized as \"the first successful black woman novelist living in Britain after 1948\"."
tagline: "Nigerian writer (1944–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/July21_Buchi_Emecheta.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "NG"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1944-07-21"
deathDate: "2017-01-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  205
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-country-fill