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Buchi Emecheta, a prolific literary giant, who is known for championing the cause of black women in Africa and Diaspora, has crafted more than twenty books elucidating the ordeals and the pitiable plight into which the black women have been ditched for ages. Her contribution to the literary world is widely acclaimed by many as her writings reflect her personal and community pathos comprehensively. Her versatile nature is exhibited through her multifaceted dimensions of an orator, essayist, novelist, and playwright. Her resurgence from nothingness to the pinnacle of fame is a testimony that her writings are very relevant and useful in today’s world. It would be crystal clear to anyone who reads her novels that her writings principally evolve around on twofold agendas. Firstly, it aims at exposing the harassment that women are prone to suffer under patriarchy and secondly, she crafts out series of plan of actions to overcome such hazards. It is her intellectual competency and acumen enables her to strategize effective mechanism to combat all the forces that are oppressive towards women.