“But who made the rule that we should not hope in our daughters? We women subscribe to that law more than anyone. Until we change all this, it is still a man’s world, which women will always help to build” writes Buchi Emecheta (187). Emecheta’s novel The Joys of Motherhood explores this idea through the trials and tribulations of its main character Nnu Ego, a Nigerian woman during the early 1900’s. For Nnu Ego and many other women in her tribal community, they only knew a world dictated by men. The Nigerian women’s world was not one of opportunity and freedom, but of survival. Nnu Ego knew her main function in her society was fertility--to provide a male heir for the family line. Unfortunately, Nnu Ego also had the sole responsibil
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