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 Univ

Emecheta's view of Nigerian Culture is one of new verses old. Through the characters of "The Joys of Motherhood" Emecheta depicts the changes - the Nigeria of old to the new Nigeria with all its new inherited ideas and ultimate culture change.

Her eldest son returns to Nigeria and pays for a big funeral in order to prove what a good son he is. This showing that he is effected by both cultures, his own native Nigerian and British - the want to please his native culture and the need for survival.

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