{"id":8782,"date":"2017-01-25T13:14:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T12:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8782"},"modified":"2017-04-27T10:32:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T09:32:27","slug":"emecheta-buchi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/emecheta-buchi\/","title":{"rendered":"EMECHETA, Buchi,"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, writer, born in Lagos; married, has five children; Educa tion: Ladilak Primary School, Yaba, Lagos, Reagan MemorialBaptist School, Yaba, La gos, Methodist Girls&#8217; High School, Yaba, Lagos, London University, UK;Career: Ap pointed SeniorResearchfellow, Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Calabar, 1980; member, Arts Council of Great Britain; member, Advisory Council, HomeSecretary on Race and Equality,Lon don; member,ChristChurch Choir, Highgate, North London; Awards: Best Black Writer in Britain, 1978;Jock Campbell award, 1979; Daughter of MarkTwain &#8211; AnAmerican Lit erature award; Publications: In the Ditch, Allison and Busby, London, 1972; Second- Class Citizen, Allison and Busby, London, 1974;TheBridePrice, Allison and Busby, London, 1976; The Slave girl, Allison and Busby, London, 1977; The Joys of Motherhood, Allison and Busby, London, 1979; Destination Biafra, Allison and Busby, Lon don, 1982; Naira Power, Macmillan, Lon don, 1982; Address: Briston Grove, North London, London, UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8782","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8782"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}