JOURNAL ARTICLE

Buchi Emecheta's The Slave Girl: The Colonial Legacies of African Women.

  • Published In: IUP Journal of English Studies, 2025, v. 20, n. 4. P. 35 1 of 3

  • Database: Humanities Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Siva R.; Ramesh M. 3 of 3

Abstract

The paper examines how Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta highlights the ill-effects of British colonialism and internal colonialism on Nigerian women in her novel The Slave Girl. Emecheta gained global attention for the powerful representation of African women, especially Nigerian women, in her writings. Her novel, The Slave Girl, is about Ogbanje Ojebeta, who was sold into domestic slavery at the age of six by her own brother after her parents' death. Ogbanje Ojebeta's story shows how women have been subjected to traditional and patriarchal oppression in African Ibo (also spelled Igbo) culture, both before and after British colonialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:IUP Journal of English Studies. 2025/12, Vol. 20, Issue 4, p35
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:09733728
  • DOI:10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.4.35-42
  • Accession Number:191558833
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