1.8.2 Her Themes
Zaynab Alkali is believed to be the first notable female voice from Northern Nigeria. She was enthusiastically welcomed in the male dominated Nigerian literary scene. Her widely read novels focus on the position of African women in patriarchal Africa. In her various works, she has dealt with themes ranging from the problems of child-brides, child abuse, the negative consequences of unemployment, purdah, polygamy etc. She has repeatedly called for a new brand of feminism or what one may term as African feminism. She has equally advocated and identified with what she fondly refers to as ‘womanism’. This new brand of feminism emphasizes the improvement of social, economic and political status of women. She has on several occasions called for a rejection of the western brand of feminism as based on strict gender equality and often anti-male stance. Through her writings, she struggles against cultural, traditional and class privileges which have prevented women’s progress. “In all her works, alkali offers a rare insight into the
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She was born in 1974 in Maiduguri, Bornu State which incidentally is her state of origin. She attended University Primary School Maiduguri, Bornu State. Her Secondary School was in Federal Government Girls College (FGGC), Yola, Adamawa State and Federal Government College (FGC), Maiduguri, Borno State. Her first degree was from University of Maiduguri, Borno State where she obtained a Bachelor of Law (LL.B). She proceeded to The Nigeria Law School, Bwari where she obtained a Barrister at Law (BL). She went ahead to obtain a master at Law (LL.M) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State. She has been teaching Law at University of Abuja since 2001. Before she ventured into the academia, she practiced Law for a year and a half at M. A. Bello and Co., Abuja. She is a Muslim by faith and is happily married with
Ruth Fertel is the one who created Ruth’s Chris Steak House which is the largest collection of upscale local steakhouses. She was a single mother, and she opened her first restaurant in 1965. She was the daughter of a school teacher and an insurance salesmen. She achieved her college bachelor’s degree when she was 19 years old in chemistry. She taught at John McNeese Junior college for a little, and she married Rodney Fertel.
Experiment 1: Materials: • Alka-Seltzer tablets • Empty and clean water or soda bottles (12 oz to 24 oz) • Balloons • Water • Clock • Stove top Procedure: 1. Pour a sufficient amount of water (about 16 oz) into a small pot and place on the stove at high heat. 2. Watch the clock and after 30 seconds take the water off the heat.
After her father’s hanging, she moved to live with her grandmother. She showed a passion early on for education and the pursuit of knowledge and despite the tragedies of her past, continued to get schooling. Aged eighteen, she married
To begin, I will be talking about her younger life. She was born in Otwock,
In her junior year at Howard University she found out she was pregnant, she was determined to keep her baby and not miss a beat when it came to preforming. After she had Marcell, her son she kept her attendance and performances up with Marcell alongside. She achieve her goal in 1995 when she graduated with her degree in theater. The next year she moved to Los
She is a teacher, cultural consultant and artist. In 2020, she won the NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year Award and is an award-winning writer of poetry, children’s literature, essays, plays, pictures and prose. She wrote the book Bindi Kindred and many of her books have been celebrated by the President’s
She has received early schooling up to age of eleven year in her home because her grandmother and her aunts at that time didn’t believed in traditional educational system. She went to public school at the age of eleven year; due to her home based schooling she was lacking social interaction or relationships. So, she used to spent her most of the time in reading literatures. She graduated from high school at the age of sixteen years and moved to New York with one the aunt. There she got a job in publishing house; the role she performed was clerk and mechanical tasks.
She 's from Homestead, Florida and played college basketball for FIU. She had a phenomenal collegiate career averaging a double double every game. After college she
In the short story ‘growing my hair again’, the author explains how women in the African traditions are held captive by the traditional culture and their struggles to trying to break away them using the main character Nneka. In Nigeria as well as in the other parts of Africa, culture was and still is given a lot of emphasizes especially when it comes to the traditional practices and beliefs. The culture however vary from one community to the other and ranges from the rights of passage, religious beliefs to other religious practices such as offering sacrifices and the role of women in the community .Nneka was married to a rich man in traditional Nigerian community and as in other areas, women had a role of being submissive to their husbands and subject to other cruel traditions. This traditions literary took their freedoms to make decisions or put strict boundaries to their extent of interacting with other people. When Nnekas husband died, she was required to shave her hair as a sign of mourning.
Heather Whitestone was born on February 24, 1923 in Dothan, Alabama. Whitestone was the first woman with a disability to be crowned Miss America 1995. Her mother, Daphne Gray, was a seventh grade math teacher and her father, Bill Whitestone, was an owner of a furniture store. She is the youngest of three sisters. She is married with John A. McCallum, a hearing man
Hosseini illustrates the struggle of women and their endurance of being treated as second hand citizens through his female lead characters. An important theme he displays is the importance of education in woman and the effects it has on a
A Thousand Splendid Suns Essay Women in the 1990’s had it rough after the Mujahedeen take over. After his takeover, an increased number of laws were made to limit the freedom of women when before, women were happy, they could get educated and roam freely. The novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini demonstrates the life of an Afghan woman before and after the Mujahedeen take over. Babi, the father of Laila tells the reader that women were lucky to be living during their time, “It’s a good time to be a woman in Afghanistan.”
She was injured by the Taliban and had to get treatment in a British hospital. She had international speeches and has won many prizes for human rights and equality (won the Nobel peace prize in 2014). The speech on education she had back in summer 2013 was for the UN General Assembly and it went viral. What she wanted to achieve is simply that she lays down the brutal facts and people of great power like the UN Assembly follows with resolutions and permanent changes. Her speech was interesting and very good build up by her use of the three theories of argumentation, which I will analyse throughout this essay.
She explains the cruciality of transnational feminism, where it is dependent upon building solidarity across the divisions among women. Overall, Mohanty believes in illuminating the historical aspects of nations and how they led to the social construction of women. Mohanty’s text was exceedingly interesting to read since it expanded my perceptions
The role of women in literature crosses many broad spectrums in works of the past and present. Women are often portrayed as weak and feeble individuals that submit to the situations around them, but in many cases women are shown to be strong, independent individuals. This is a common theme that has appeared many times in literature. Across all literature, there is a common element that causes the suffering and pain of women. This catalyst, the thing that initiates the suffering of women, is essentially always in the form of a man.