SPACE SHIFT

This essay focuses on the social and cultural shift of Nigerian women from the pre-colonial to the post-colonial era in Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood and Chimamada Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, Using post-colonial theory to explain the struggles of women which subsequently leads to their transformation and development over these eras. This essay employs a qualitative methodology to explore the elements of patriarchy and feminism in the novels . This essays concludes with examining gender roles expectation, issues relating to womanhood and more contemporary developments like carrier, marriage and adoption and how this developments creates as sense of hostility between individual freedom and the preservation of cultural heritage.