 Francophone and anglophone feminist and gynandrist novelists (Zynab Alkali, Mariama Ba, Mongo Beti, Buchi Emecheta, Henri Lopez, Amina Sow Fall, Flora Nwapa, Ifeoma Okoye, I.N.C. Aniebo) have dramatized the cause of wronged womanhood and the dehumanizing and patriarchal conditions under which the African woman is forced to function, often abandoned after exploitation. Education and economic autonomy become avenues for survival for the oppressed woman. This sometimes creates harmony that sustains companionate union. The study encourages women to exercise the will to change and to transcend the negative strictures (polygamy, barrenness, infidelity) that destabilize homes and promote abandonment. |
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A HISTORY OF AFRICANA WOMEN'S LITERATURE |
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 A History of Africana Women's Literature contains a selection of essays by notable Feminist/Womanist scholars exploring the lives of Black women in different socio-cultural, linguistic and religious milieux, using a cross-disciplinary perspective. The book offers portraits of women actually seen to move beyond mere socio-gender protests against marginalization and voicelessness to a much-desired phase of dynamic socio-political / intellectual activism and self-actualization -- leading to a recovery and an effective use of the female voice. Fictive or real, women of this anthology all have a history of activism that can be traced even to pre-colonial Africa and its orality.
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