Unfolding the Psychological Trauma of an African Immigrant Woman: Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen

  • C.M.Dhukila et al.

Abstract

Education plays a paramount role in the transformation of human life which primarily leads to a life enriched with optimal success. Money can be a driving force for happiness in the world and it can bestow fulfillment and respect, when a woman earns it herself. Women have been enslaved and looked down upon due to the deprivation of education. This paper attempts to shed light upon the psychological trauma of an African woman in the foreign soil. Buchi Emecheta is one of the highly venerated Nigerian Writers at present times. This Paper represents how Adah, the heroine of the novel, Second Class Citizen seeks to redefine the hierarchies of power and their reinforcing forces that marginalized Africans in various ways, making their lives a battleground of everyday life. Adahs struggle is the glimmer of hope in the darkness of misery. Education tends to be the pillar of strength and a strong pilaster for an African woman which causes her to believe the irrational thoughts that oppress women are not worth following.

Published
2019-11-15
Section
Articles