In the Ditch

Name: In the Ditch
Author: Buchi Emecheta

by Buchi Emecheta

Single mother on welfare in London endures poverty and social contempt

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Buchi Emecheta

Nigerian novelist whose fiction explored the lives of African women with groundbreaking feminist directness. The Joys of Motherhood and Second-Class Citizen are her most celebrated works. She was a pioneering figure in African women's literature in English.

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