Buchi is the Igbo short form of Onyebuchi ("who is like God"). **Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017)** was the **Nigerian-British novelist** who **wrote the African woman's experience into world literature** — her novels *Second-Class Citizen* (1974), *The Bride Price* (1976), and *The Joys of Motherhood* (1979) — written while raising five children alone — established her as **one of the foundational voices of African women's literature**.
Honored with an OBE in 2005.
Buchi reduces to four — the number of African novelist.