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The discourse that ‘Woman is a victim’ becomes essentially the subject matter of numerous African narratives. Those depictions provide certain assessments of women’s life primarily focusing upon the subjugation and marginalization of the “second sex”. However dismantling such assertions, the contemporary writers attempt to lend power to the ‘powerless’. This is done perhaps to bring about a change in their doomed existence which is flubbed by the patriarchal stance. The doubly marginalized African women are subjected to extreme hardships in the name of colour and gender. Thus, amidst these privations the African women writers brings forth the articulations of women’s voice which are made up of thousand truths which were throughout veiled. Writers like Adichie, Emecheta, Mariama Ba provide their woman protagonist a vehicle to articulate their trauma and bring about a change in their vulnerable condition. These writers bestow certain liberty to the female protagonists and seek to empower them. Although numerous other ideas form the trajectory of women oppression, this paper shall explore the various modes of empowering the African women amidst oppression.

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