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Comparative Analysis Of Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen And Nwapa’s Efuru
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A year later,
Emecheta received a full scholarship to the Methodist Girl’s School,
when she remained until the age of sixteen. She married Sylvester
Onwordi, a student to whom she had been engaged since she was eleven
years old. Onwordi immediately moved to London to attend University and
Emecheta joined him in 1962. She bore him five children in six years,
but it was an unhappy and sometimes violent marriage (as chronicled in
her autobiographical writings such as Second Class Citizen).
At the
age of twenty-two, Emecheta left her husband. While working to support
her children alone, she earned a B.sc degree in Sociology in the
University of London. From 1965 to 1969, she worked as a library officer
for the BritishMuseum in London from 1969 to 1976 she was a youth
worker and sociologist for their inner London Education Authority.
She
has visited several American Universities including
PennsylvaniaStateUniversity, RutgersUniversity, university of California
and Los angels. She was senior fellow and visiting professor of English
in University of CalabarNigeria.
Her major theme is child slavery,
motherhood, female independence and freedom. She is the author of
numerous books including; The Joys of Motherhood, The Bride Price, In
the Ditch, Second Class Citizen, Destination Biafra and Head Above
Water.
1.7 BIOGRAPHY OF FLORA NWAPA (1931-1993)
Flora Nwapa was
born in Oguta, Eastern Nigerian, which was then a British colony. Both
of her parents, Christopher Ijeoma and Martha Nwapa were teachers. She
was educated at the University of Ibadan, receiving her B.A in 1957.
Nwapa continued her studies in England, earning in 1958 a degree in
Education from the University of Edinburgh.
After returning to
Nigeria in 1959, Nwapa worked as an Education officer in Calabar for a
short time, and she taught Geography and English at Queen’s School in
Enugu. From 1962-1964 she was an Assistant Registrar at the university
of Lagos. During the Nigerian Civil war, she left Lagos with her family.
Like many members of the Igbo Elite, they were forced to return to the
Eastern region after the end of the conflict. She became Nigerian
writer, Teacher and Administrator, a fore-runner of a whole generation
of African Women Writer.
Flora Nwapa is best known for re-creating
Igbo (Ibo) life and traditions from a woman’s view point. With Efuru
(1966) Nwapa became Black Africa’s first internationally published
female Novelist in the English Language. She has been called the mother
of Modern African Literature.
In 1982, the Nigerian Government
bestowed on her one of the countries highest honours, the OON (Order of
Niger). By her own town, Oguta she was awarded the highest Chieftaincy
title, Ogbuefi, which is usually reserved for men of achievement.
As a
novelist Nwapa made her debut with Efuru, based on an old folktale of a
woman chosen by gods, but challenged the traditional portrayal of
women. She died on October 16, 1993 in Enugu, Nigeria. She was married
to Gogo Nwakuche an Industrialist. They had three children.
Flora Nwapa is the author of numerous books including Idu, Never Again, Wives at War, One is Enough, This is Lagosand Efuru.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study undertakes a comparative analysis of the works of two Nigerian female novelists: Buchi Emecheta and Flora Nwapa, it looks at the contemporary African society which is dominated by men.Little or no recognition is given to women thus they have been oppressed, depressed, subjected and neglected. In this regards African female writers like Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwapa, Ama Ata Aidoo, Mariama Ba, Zaynab Alkali among others fought on behalf of African women through their works by giving them ... Continue reading---
