Late Nigerian novelist, Buchi Emecheta, got celebrated by Google with its Doodle on her 75th posthumous birthday which is today, July 21, 2019.
The Google Doodle is a product of Google that appears temporarily on special occasions, in place of Google’s permanent logo on the homepage. In its tweet acknowleging the late writer’s posthumous birthday, Google wrote;
Today our
#GoogleDoodle celebrates Nigerian author, Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta on what would have been her 75th birthday. Emecheta published 16 novels, including In The Ditch, Second-Class Citizen, and Slave Girl.
Though she resisted labelling herself a “feminist” author, the late Nigerian writer, Buchi Emecheta was known for her novels which centered on sexual discrimination and racial prejudice.
Born on this day in 1944, in Lagos, Nigeria, to Igbo parents, Alice (Okwuekwuhe) Emecheta and Jeremy Nwabudinke, Buchi Emecheta was initially kept at home while her younger brother was sent to…
Source: Linda Ikeji
