FEMALE WRITERS, AS BUILDERS OF AFRICAN SOCIETY: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON SOME WORKS BY FEMALE WRITERS

Abstract

In recent times, Female African Writers have been on the vanguard
of the pursuit for an ideal family unit. The essence is to ensure that
there is harmony in every home: for it is only then that the nation can
develop. This article is therefore, an attempt to explore how the
writers have tried to achieve their aspirations by exposing the evils that
occur when young ones engage in premarital sexual relationship. The
theory for the investigation is sociological theory which enucleates
/explains the inevitable relationship between art and society and how
art deliberately redefines a world that has detailed and sustains the
one on course. This investigation discovers that in life everyone reaps
whatever he/she sows. The inevitability of seed time and harvest time
becomes the watch word of every living being. That whoever jilts a
lover for selfish reasons for instance goes with a curse which shows
later in life. Hence the need for good or proper parenting. It also
stresses that importance of children, youths and adults living a Godly
life. This concept will be screened through Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie’s The Things Around Our Neck Razinant T. Mohammed’s A
love like a Woman’s and Other Stories and Sophia Obi Apoko’s Broken
Pearls.