Kwara State University
Saeedat ALIYU
Designation: Senior Lecturer
Department: Linguistics African and European Languages
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| 1 | Constraints to womanhood in northern Nigeria: A feminist reading of Hilary Rouse-Amadi’s Amina |
The northern part of Nigeria has been established as a traditionally patriarchal society. Aided by culture and an over application of some tenets of the major religion, females are treated as appendages and bent to the whims of their male counterparts. Discrimination against women however transcends beyond the frontiers of the northern part of Nigeria; human right activists and writers across the globe have for decades been championing for a change in selective acts against women. However, to focus only on subordination and discrimination between women and men is to generalize the more challenging gender practices. The differing cultural practices across the globe require a modification of the general and Western form of Feminism. Hilary Rouse-Amadi’s Amina; a verse poem, explores the psychological, intellectual and physical repression of Hausa female characters in a sexist society. This paper will attempt a textual analysis of Hilary Rouse-Amadi’s Amina to establish the repressive tendencies of a culturally patriarchal society on its female members. This paper concludes that there is the need for a counter-repression of the existing male supremacy to facilitate a corresponding development of the intellectual, psychological and economic status of the women. | Aliyu, S.B. | ISNB:978-978-918-074-5 | Gender politics: women’s writings and films in northern Nigeria. Yerima, A. & Aliyu, S.B. (eds.) 60-68. Ibadan: Kraft Books Ltd. | 2012-01-01 | ||