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The Joys Of Motherhood

Buchi Emecheta

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1979
Pages
Pages 240

A young Igbo woman moves to colonial Lagos for an arranged marriage, pouring everything into children she trusts will secure her old age. Western schooling pulls them away, and she dies alone by the roadside while they prosper far off.

God, when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a full human being, not anybody's appendage?
The Joys Of Motherhood, Buchi Emecheta

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