Polygamy in African fiction.(Critical essay)

Current Writing: Text and Reception in SouthernAfrica | January 1, 2008| | Copyright

Abstract

Polygamy in the form of polygyny is still practised all over Africa and remains an obstacle to female emancipation in many countries, including South Africa, where it is recognised legally by the Customary Marriages Act. This article examines the rhetoric surrounding polygamy in a number of African texts, including critical articles, the thirteenth-century epic Sundiata, Rebecca Hourwich Reyher's biography of Christina Sibiya and novels by Mariama Ba, Buchi Emecheta, Chinua Achebe, Es'kia Mphahlele, Ama Ata Aidoo, Lazarus Miti and Onuora Nzekwu. Although a ...

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