@sylvesteronwordi “ writes: “Second-Class Citizen is both a sequel and the prequel to In The Ditch. It is the fictionalised autobiography of my mother’s early life up until the early 1970s when she became an established writer. She was only 27 when she wrote it, and as with her first novel, she framed the work around her experience as a Black, single mother on welfare, raising five young children in North London council estates. . Second-Class Citizen could arguably be read as embedded ethnograp

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In this 1975 interview, Nigerian literary icon Buchi Emecheta OBE talks about her novel Second-Class Citizen, the semi-autobiographical story of Adah, a young Igbo woman who moves from Lagos to London with her husband and children. The book explores the r@c!sm and se*!sm Adah faces in 1960s England as she balances the expectations of her Nigerian culture with the challenges of life in a new country, all while pursuing her dream of becoming a writer. . Born in Lagos in 1944, Emecheta moved to the