A Study of Nation and the Black Woman in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

Abstract

            The plight of black women is double colonized by the issues of gender and white colonialism. Black feminist fictions act as a mirror of the sufferings of black women who were suppressed in the colonial and postcolonial African societies because of their race, class and sex. Being oppressed means being bereft of choices. This denial of choice is the primary point of contact between the oppressed and the oppressor. Many women in the African society are left with no choices; therefore exploitation and discrimination are words that accurately describe their lot. This study seeks to explore one of those novels by the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,  Purple Hibiscus.