Colonial Impact: Women’s Struggle in the Select Novels of Buchi Emecheta

Abstract

In congregating a wide spectrum of study on the African fiction, the role of women plays a chief aspect in the writings of African women writers. This paper is the one to look at how it is featured the challenges that women face in current Nigerian culture by Buchi Emecheta, a conspicuous female author. She was one of the primary African women writers to draw out the sufferings of women which flung them by purported social standards and values and to deny women to motivate an opportunity to create to their fullest potential. In her a large portion of books, she brings up that however the customary thoughts are being changed, the jobs and obligations of women are yet expected to accept that keep them from accomplishing their self. This paper endeavors to discover how Emecheta's female characters are created by their subjective nature of sex-orientated physical appearance for their motherhood identity and how they struggle to face people in the society to prove their ability as a women. In The Joys of Motherhood (1979), Emecheta depicts female characters' battle for their survival and states how they battle with the issues made by a resolved male-commanded society as, father, husband, brother, neighbour, boss and as the superior-hand all around women in the society. This examination endeavors to look at the manner by which Emecheta's Western women's activist belief system with the hints of the dangerous impact of Western private enterprise and its related philosophies on the relative power and autonomy of Igbo women in the African culture.