Gender-based violence in buchi emecheta’s the joys of motherhood

This paper highlights men’s violence against women in Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood. The fundamental idea around which this paper evolves is women’s passive position in the face of men’s chauvinism. Often adhering to African values and codes, most African women content themselves with traditional roles of homemaking and child bearing and are still discriminated against in every society. They are wrongfully denied access to the basic human need including the decision making power among other things. Interestingly enough, some African human right activists and other emancipated elites such as Buchi Emecheta have undauntedly decided to write in order to depict this ill-treatment of African women.