id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_3spmbqewxrfajh2cl7znbw6lf4 Ebele Peace Okpala TRACING THE EVOLUTION OF THE IMAGE OF AFRICAN FEMALES THROUGH THE AGES: AN OVERVIEW OF SELECTED LITERARY WORKS 2020 9 .pdf application/pdf 5176 545 62 revealed that the image of pre-colonial and colonial African women as Keywords: African women, Patriarchy, Image, Experience, Feminism. men and women in political, social, and economic issues, has been critically extended into several wrote one of the first works of feminist philosophy, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, which called include; Liberal feminism; which seeks the individualistic equality of men and women through political This study will trace and analyze how the image of the woman in the works of African writers evolved look into the efforts made by feminist writers towards a re-definition of the image of the African woman. Elechi Amadi in his works portrays his men as a dignified group while his women are treated with African female writers like Flora Nwapa, Ifeoma Okoye, Buchi Emecheta, Nawal El Saadawi, Yvonne Despite criticisms, African female writers, continuously portray the pains and experiences of women of Studies of Women in African Literature. ./cache/work_3spmbqewxrfajh2cl7znbw6lf4.pdf ./txt/work_3spmbqewxrfajh2cl7znbw6lf4.txt