Abstract Buchi Emecheta in Joys of Motherhood deals with colonial times in Nigeria and the social status quo during the period. The novel is a critique in postcolonial feminism based on African culture. Parallels are drawn in both the theories with the white race calling the tune in the former and the male gender doing the same in the latter. The power politics, which sets the rules of the game, marks out the Black African woman as distinctly the second class in both the cases, as she is subjugated in…
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