Abstract: The study examines Female Assertion in Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter and Zaynab Alkali the Stillborn. From findings, in the two selected plays the study has shown that, several cultural practices in African humiliates and affects the women emotionally as seen in Ba’s So Long a Letter. In another instance, the persistent inequality…
FEMALE SUBJUGATION IN SOME FEMALE WRITERS; AN EXAMINATION OF MARIAMA BA’S SO LONG A LETTER AND BUCHI EMECHETA’S SECOND CLASS CITIZEN CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Traditionally, African women have experienced low status of subjugation, oppression, cultural domination and patriarchal suppression. Looking at female subjugation as portrayed by Mariama Ba and Buchi…
Abstract: The research work examined female socio-cultural and religious problems in Nawal El Saadawi’s woman at point zero and Mariama Ba’s so long a letter. Over the years, the challenges facing the female folk is that of cultural and religious problems. It is also discovered that, several cultural practices affects the females. As examined by…
Abstract: This research work examines the effect of cultural discrimination against women in Zaynab Alkali’s The Still Born and Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter. This study shown that Zaynab Alkali and Mariam Ba are prolific African female writers because their writings call for the emancipation of African women from the shackles of male oppression…