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Head above water

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Autobiographical and Biographical Writing Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies Caribbean and African Literature and Culture

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As for my survival for the past twenty years in England, from when I was a little over twenty, dragging four cold and dripping babies with me and pregnant with the fifth one - that is a And if for any reason you do not believe in miracles, please start believing, because keeping my head above water in this indifferent society...is a miracle. Buchi Emecheta's autobiography spans the transition from a tribal childhood in the African bush to life in North London as an internationally acclaimed writer.

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