TRIBUTE TO FLORENCE ONYEBUCHI “BUCHI” EMECHETA
Profession: Novelist, Children’s Literature Writer, Playwright, Sociologist, Educator, Essayist, Womanist. Awards: Jock Campbell Award for The Slave Girl in 1978. Member, British Home Secretary’s Advisory Council on Race, in the New Statesman magazine in 1979. Listed among 20 Best Young British Novelists, alongside such rising stars as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie in Granta magazine in 1983. Honorary Doctorate in Literature from Farleigh Dickinson University in 1992. Listed among 50 Black and Asian Writers at the British Library for contributions to contemporary British Literature in 2004. Order of the British Empire (OBE) for literature in 2005.