The romance novel has been a source of ridicule and criticism ever since its inception and most especially due to its consumption by women. Scholars such as Tania Modleski and Janice Radway arguing that it actually empowers women of which African women are included. However, there exists little or no scholarship on African Romance novels or even Romance novels based on Africa. My paper, therefore, seeks to address the scarcity of African romance novels which special attention to West African women. It is interesting to find out that mostly Christian authors have been able to combine these two powerful themes into a novel that entertain while evangelizing to people. The West African woman like every other in the Western world enjoy romance n...
The colonial experience, particularly the introduction of Christianity and Islam in Africa, altered ...
Before I go into the subject matter of my paper let me explain that my observations on the portrayal...
A majority of West African women, like most other African women, are victims of society regulated by...
Drawing upon interviews with readers in Ghana and Nigeria as well as a large number of locally publi...
Purpose: Womanism, as a subset of African feminism, provides a framework for a comprehensive examina...
Love in both traditional and modern African societies is seen as a peculiar act conditioned by the s...
African traditional religion is one of the starting points of the West African literature, and in mo...
This paper aims to explore the female readers reading experiences, views and feelings of Hausa roman...
Feminism, especially the womanist brand, has been a very popular critical tool that most critics, me...
The paper re-examines feminist issues that are prevalent in the African literary discourse. Many fem...
This work examines three novels by two authors from two West African countries; Mbarek Ould Beyrouk ...
This thesis undertakes a comparative examination of gender relations m African and African-American ...
Since the dawn of time, women generally have had fewer legal rights and status in society than their...
In a patriarchal society, women are faced with all sorts of dehumanisation ranging from deprivation,...
'Popular Romance and the Woman Reader' is divided into three parts. The first is an analysis of theo...
The colonial experience, particularly the introduction of Christianity and Islam in Africa, altered ...
Before I go into the subject matter of my paper let me explain that my observations on the portrayal...
A majority of West African women, like most other African women, are victims of society regulated by...
Drawing upon interviews with readers in Ghana and Nigeria as well as a large number of locally publi...
Purpose: Womanism, as a subset of African feminism, provides a framework for a comprehensive examina...
Love in both traditional and modern African societies is seen as a peculiar act conditioned by the s...
African traditional religion is one of the starting points of the West African literature, and in mo...
This paper aims to explore the female readers reading experiences, views and feelings of Hausa roman...
Feminism, especially the womanist brand, has been a very popular critical tool that most critics, me...
The paper re-examines feminist issues that are prevalent in the African literary discourse. Many fem...
This work examines three novels by two authors from two West African countries; Mbarek Ould Beyrouk ...
This thesis undertakes a comparative examination of gender relations m African and African-American ...
Since the dawn of time, women generally have had fewer legal rights and status in society than their...
In a patriarchal society, women are faced with all sorts of dehumanisation ranging from deprivation,...
'Popular Romance and the Woman Reader' is divided into three parts. The first is an analysis of theo...
The colonial experience, particularly the introduction of Christianity and Islam in Africa, altered ...
Before I go into the subject matter of my paper let me explain that my observations on the portrayal...
A majority of West African women, like most other African women, are victims of society regulated by...