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A 10 page research paper that, first of all, analyzes a novel by Bushi Emecheta's novel entitled Second-Class Citizen, which was first published in 1974, and concerns the life of a Nigerian woman of the Igbo tribe. Emecheta's protagonist, Adah Obi, is pictured from childhood through early adulthood, with Emecheta charting her personal development within the Nigerian cultural framework. In this manner, Emecheta addresses not only the way that Nigerian custom relegates women to second-class citizenship, but also how this problem is compounded when her family moves to England. Examination of the novel shows that it accurately represents the real-life experiences of African women in regards to secondary status, culturally, politically, and racially. The writer proves this point by offering an extensive discussion of outside sources that discusses African women. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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early adulthood, with Emecheta charting her personal development within the Nigerian cultural framework. In this manner, Emecheta addresses not only the way that Nigerian custom relegates women to second-class citizenship,
but also how this problem is compounded when her family moves to England. Examination of the novel shows that it accurately represents the real-life experiences of African women in regards
to secondary status, culturally, politically, and racially. Adah is first introduced to the reader as a young girl. She is intelligent and ambitious as she longs for an education.
However, her family judges that it is more worthwhile to send her younger brother to school. Her parents, particularly her mother, have doubts about the wisdom of educating girls. Adah
sneaks away from her mother one day and runs to the schoolhouse. She has met the teacher previously a few times and she hopes that he will allow her to
sit in on his class. When she arrives at the school, she burst in on a class, disrupting it, but the teacher does allow her to remain and her family
enrolls her in school officially. Tragedy strikes when Adahs fairly liberal father dies not too long after her registration at school and she is sent to live her mothers
brother. As with all female orphans, she becomes a "servant" in her uncles household (Emecheta, 1983, p. 17). Her uncles family continues to allow her to go to school on
the rationale that this will enable them to fetch a higher bride price at marriage. While Adahs life is miserable during this period, her ambition is still alive and her
high scores earn her a scholarship to a highly competitive secondary school. Due to her exemplary scores on leaving school, Adah is able to procure a librarians position at the
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