International Research Journal of Education and Technology

The present paper aims to depict The Emergence of Women in African Literature that is laden with inconsistencies and resistances, most emerging out of the colonial domination of Africa, other fundamental to the authoritative structure of specific social orders. The privileging of man in African social orders has engaged an eradication of personalities and subjectivities of numerous women, holding them to a supposition of female mediocrity. This paper also analyses with a perspective on investigating how the contemporary African women meet individual issues as the African culture wrestles with gender, class, ethic and other social disparities. In this context, African women writers, to contend against the injustice, have occupied in metaphorical and performative stratagems intended to reconstitute the social eradication as they attempt to assert status as individuals. Their works stand elevated for women empowerment and the other debased sections of the social order. The works of female writers are passionate and replicate the occurrences in the general public. They depict characters which are near the real world. In addition to this, their novels are profound established in compassion, anticipating issues identified with gender, marriage, motherhood, social inequality and sexual misuse.

Keywords: Women, African literature, Francophone, Africa, French