Second-Class Citizen

''Fresh, timeless ... a lively work of art'' Observer

''Buchi Emecheta was the foremother of black British women''s writing . . . powerful fictions written from and about our lives'' Bernardine Evaristo

''Most dreams, as all dreamers know quite well, do have setbacks. Adah''s dream was no exception, for hers had many''

They nicknamed Adah ''the Igbo tigress'' at school in Nigeria, she was so fearles...