Abstract
The protruding numbers of scholarly
works on feminism―in all its inflections―reveal that there is a progression of
conversations that center on the exploration of gender inequity in the world,
and the absurdity it creates therefore. In recent time, that tide of influence
has been sweeping the African intellectual space with a form of torrent that
necessitates diverging views. Many of the works in this direction argue that
Africans undermine their female's economic freedom by distancing from them the
means of production, and by implication, their financial access. There is thus
the paucity of intellectual engagements that considers necessary the
decolonization of the existing economic structure of Africa, achievable through
the knowledge of distributive economies that permeated their system before
colonial experience. Consequently, this work concentrates on decolonizing this
structure by taking a gendered lesson from two texts, namely, Flora Nwakpa’s Efuru and Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood. To achieve
this, Akachi Ezeigbo's snail-sense feminism is used, as its tenets are anchors
for situating the contemporary African economic structure within its colonial
heritages. The culture of protest demonstrated by the protagonists of the text
is an awareness and consciousness of the roles of women in primordial African
setting and they appear to be unapologetic about making their voices heard, and
their roles count. Role-reversal, and economic restructurings are evident of
this adrenaline protest, and the works therefore exemplify economic frameworks
useful in revolutionizing the polity.
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