Fighting for a status : liberation of females in West African society.

• Main Author: Ong, Winifred PeiQi.
• Other Authors: Bede Tregear Scott
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44252
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Flora Nwapa’s Efuru (1966) and Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1989) address the issues on the female gender in West African society. Women are suppressed by their marriages and are expected to be submissive. They are regarded as possessions of the males. Furthermore, African women are also reduced t...