Question: On Nigerian culture, compare and contrast the feelings and the attitudes of Emecheta and Achebe. The essential conflict for the culture identified by each is different. Explore this.
             Buchi Emecheta emigrated from Nigeria to London with her young husband, only to find herself ultimately alone, raising children in a hostile and poverty-ridden climate. Through hard work and study she became an influential writer focusing on the roles of women in both the traditional and emigrant societies. Her portrait of Ibo culture is a very different one from Chinua Achebe's; but we must bear in mind not only that she is writing as a woman, but also that her novel is set long after Things Fall Apart, when traditional structures have begun to malfunction seriously under the impact of urbanization.
             Albert Chinualumogu Achebe was born on November 16, 1930, in Ogidi, a large village in Nigeria. Although he was the child of a Protestant missionary and received his early education in English, his upbringing was multicultural, as the inhabitants of Ogidi still lived according to many aspects of traditional Igbo (formerly written as Ibo) culture. Achebe attended the Government College in Umuahia from 1944 to 1947. He graduated from University College, Ibadan, in 1953. While he was in college, Achebe studied history and theology. He also developed his interest in indigenous Nigerian cultures, and he rejected his Christian name, Albert, for his indigenous one, Chinua.
             Emecheta's novel deals with several issues and topics. Emecheta writes of the British imperialism and its effect on the people of Nigeria. Emecheta makes clear the immense importance placed on male offspring in the Nigerian Culture. Emecheta also explores family ethics from a woman's point of view. The main character, Nnu Ego is the daughter of a great Nigerian chief. She is expected to have many sons. With her first husband who beats her, she has no children. She leaves h
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