Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's House of Symbols shows that the traditional woman is an epitome of hardwork. Her business acumen is for the economic well-being of the entire family, by keeping a bakery, fashion shop and tobacco outlet. She is a source of support to the less-privilege in her community. She is a
DetailsProf Ezeigbo has held various administrative positions such as: Sub- Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos (1991/1992 and 1992/93); Acting Head, Department of English, University of Lagos (1997/98), Head Depart of English (2002 to 2005 and 2008 to 2009). She currently teaches in the Department of English and Literary Studies, Alex Ekwueme ...
DetailsKola Eke. 2020, ANSU Journal Of Language and Literary Studies Vol.2, , pp.257-266. This paper focuses on a critical analysis of the "Pidgin Poems of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo." One is not in doubt that she is one Nigerian poet whose experiment with pidgin poetry places her among the elites of the genre in modern Nigerian poetry.
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DetailsSnail–sense feminism is Akachi Ezeigbo's own brand of feminism. Ezeigbo clarified that her own model of feminism is a "result of an in-depth research or investigation into the condition of Nigerian women, their reaction and response to socio-cultural and political forces that impacted and still impact on their lives in the past and in ...
DetailsA motherist rememory of herstory in Ezeigbo's The Last of the Strong Ones In terms of textual relations, Ezeigbo's The Last of the Strong Ones poses as a rejoinder to the issues of history and women's role in the shaping of history raised in Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
DetailsAkachi Adimora-Ezeigbo exposes the social conventions, cultural mores, and traditional practices that oppress and marginalise women, especially in the Eastern part of Nigeria, as well as celebrates their struggle for . 1. Osita Ezenwanebe is a member of the Department of Creative Arts at the University Of Lagos, in Akoka, Nigeria. 2
DetailsTheodora Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo She puts a clarion call to all feminists, most Emmanuel A.Adedun and Onuora especially the African feminists to educate Benedict Nweke (ed) Ibadan: the -child and young women to be University Press. 102 - 135. outspoken, bold and intelligent, to proffer Ebbe O.N, and Das D.K. (Eds) Global escape from all ...
DetailsThe temper and texture of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's feminist discourses in Children of the Eagle (2002) seem to have been greatly influenced by the feminist critical outlook in the West of the 1970s, which had sought to expose "what might be called mechanisms of patriarchy, that is the cultural 'mind-set' in men and women which perpetuated
DetailsHearty congratulations to Professor Akachi Theodora Ezeigbo on being announced winner of the 2022 Fonlon-Nichols Award for Excellence in Creative Writing by the African Literature Association. According to a tweet by the Journal of African Literature on May 21, 2022, the day of the announcement, Professor Ezeigbo was awarded for her …
DetailsThis paper examines how Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as novelists succeeded in enriching African literature with the point of view: that women are good leaders and Africans should adopt a change of attitudes towards women and leadership. They must mould anew the African attitude to women as an integral part of an ...
DetailsAkachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is a creative writer of note who has published several novels, short stories, and children books. Besides, she has won several awards both locally and internationally. From her poetic fervour enveloped in a visible vision, she opines that regardless of colour, clime, or gender, evil is evil while good is
DetailsThe study adopts some aspects of Alice Walker's "Womanism" and Ezeigbo's "Snail Sense Feminism" as critical models in reviewing Ezeigbo mode of counter-hegemony discourse. Ezeigbo's narrative promotes the idea of sisterhood in a way that transits traditional patriarchal dominance to educative and viable gender roles.
DetailsThis paper studied the use of folktales as one of the major ingredients of storytelling in Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo's trilogy, The Last of the Strong Ones, House of Symbols and Children of the Eagle. How the author weaved these tales in between narrations, their functions and the obvious reasons they were used is the purpose of this …
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