The Joys of Motherhood

Works

Novels

  • In the Ditch (1972)[4]
  • Second Class Citizen (1974)[4]
  • The Bride Price (1976)[4][7]
  • The Slave Girl (1977); winner of the New Statesman's 1978 Jock Campbell Award[4]
  • The Joys of Motherhood (1979)[4]
  • The Moonlight Bride (1981)[7]
  • Destination Biafra (1982)[4]
  • Naira Power (1982)[7]
  • Adah's Story [In the Ditch/Second-Class Citizen] (London: Allison & Busby, 1983).
  • The Rape of Shavi (1983)[4]
  • Double Yoke (1982)[4][5]
  • A Kind of Marriage (London: Macmillan, 1986); Pacesetter Novels series.
  • Gwendolen (1989). Published in the US as The Family[59]
  • Kehinde (1994)[4]
  • The New Tribe (2000)[4]

Autobiography

  • Head above Water (1984; 1986)[7][32]
  • Voices of the Crossing - The impact of Britain on writers from Asia, the Caribbean and Africa. Ferdinand Dennis, Naseem Khan (eds), London: Serpent's Tail, 1998. Buchi Emecheta: p. 93 "Crossing Boundaries."

Children's/Young adults' books

  • Titch the Cat (illustrated by Thomas Joseph; 1979)[7][32]
  • Nowhere to Play (illustrated by Peter Archer; 1980)[4][32]
  • The Wrestling Match (1981)[7]

Plays

  • Juju Landlord (episode of Crown Court), Granada Television, 1975.[60][61]
  • A Kind of Marriage, BBC television, 1976.[4][61]
  • Family Bargain, BBC Television, 1987.[62]

Articles and shorter writings

  • Introduction and comments to Our Own Freedom, photographs by Maggie Murray; 1981[63][64]
  • 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.

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