The representation of women in fictional discourse still remains an area of live interest in
African literary criticism. There has been a sustained focus in the flawed portraiture of …

When in 1988, Narasimhaiah and Emenyonu edited the seminal volume titled African
Literature Comes of Age, it symbolised a bold pronouncement of a milestone in the evolution …

In literature the ambiguous portraiture of female characters by some male writers and the
phallic nature of men's writings have proved a matter of concern to female writers in Africa …

North Africa is a part of Africa which has been somewhat neglected in scholarship on African
literary and cultural production. This is as a result of this region's own conflicted relationship …

Feminism, especially the womanist brand, has been a very popular critical tool that most
critics, men and women alike, have employed in their critical appraisal of African literary …

African written literature has traditionally been the preserve of male writers and critics.
Today, however, accompanying an ever‐growing corpus of literature by African women …

This thesis explores female subjectivity in the works of two African women writers, Ama Ata
Aidoo and Bessie Head. Reacting against distorted and limited androcentric assumptions …

Women, throughout the world, are under the sway of various scourges that range from
gender-based discrimination, male chauvinism to physical violence. In the light of this, one …

The paper re-examines feminist issues that are prevalent in the African literary discourse.
Many feminist writers have on several occasions alleged lack of adequate, positive, active …

The privileging of man in African societies has involved an erasure of identities and
subjectivities of many women, holding them to an assumption of female inferiority. To …