Renegotiating the Terms of African Womanism: Binwell Sinyangwe’s A Cowrie of Hope and Neshani Andreas’ The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
Renegotiating the Terms of African Womanism: Binwell Sinyangwe’s A Cowrie of Hope and Neshani Andreas’ The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
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2020-08-31
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Ben -Daniel, Faith
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Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics
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Over the years African women have struggled for space and recognition in all spheres of human life. Writers from
Efua Theodora Sutherland, Buchi Emecheta and Ama Ata Aidoo down to Chimamanda N. Adichie, Lola Shoneyin
and Ayobami Adebayo have expressed African women’s struggles from divergent viewpoints. As such, this paper
returns to the concept of African womanism as created by Clenora Hudson-Weems and endeavours to dissect how
Binwell Sinyangwe’s A Cowrie of Hope and Neshani Andreas The Purple Violet of Oshaantu engages this concept
in order to create awareness of the African woman’s disposition. Subsequently, this paper focuses on the new
approaches to the discussion of the African woman’s liberation. It takes a look at the face of African womanism
as a movement that advocates the liberation of the African woman within her cultural niche. It also discusses how
Sinyangwe and Andreas address the negative factors oppressing the African woman and also suggest ways of
liberation by renegotiation.
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Ben-Daniels, F. (2020). Renegotiating the Terms of African Womanism: Binwell Sinyangwe’sa Cowrie of Hope and Neshani Andreas’ The Purple Violet of Oshaantu. Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, 71(1), 62-68.