Book Review
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Death of Endurance: Deconstructing Societal Expectations in Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s Shipikisha Club
Summary: In The Shipikisha Club, award-winning Zambian writer Mubanga Kalimamukwento penned a novel that exposes the complex intersections of motherhood, culture, generational trauma, patriarchy, and gender-based violence in Zambia. The novel is a literary revolt…
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Reviewing Women’s Resilience in ‘Adanna’ by Adesuwa O’man Nwokedi
Summary: Adanna is the story of Adanna, a teenage girl whose dreams of being educated and future ambition as an employee at NASA are shattered after her father’s sudden death. To save her family from…
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Dual Patriarchy: A Feminist Reading of Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come
Summary: Sefi Atta’s debut novel follows Enitan Taiwo, a girl from an elite Lagos household with a deeply religious, grieving mother and a politically vocal lawyer father. It later progressed to cover her relationship with…
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Reviewing the Essentials of Women’s Autonomy in ‘Americanah’
Summary: In Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells the story of Ifemelu, a young Nigerian woman who left Nigeria and her first love, Obinze, to pursue an education and a life of her own in the…
