The Igbo female and Beyond Buchi Emecheta's the Black, Nigerian, or Igbo female is about this book. The book covers almost all the novels of Emecheta. What is great about her books upon the Igbo female is that she has been best able to show them in relation to the men, other tribal men and women in the respective societies, in relation to the whites, etc. The characters are also best shown in relation with the past, present and the future