THE TRAVAILS OF THE AFRICAN WOMAN IN ADEBAYO AYOBAMI’S STAY WITH ME AND BUCHI EMECHETA’S THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD.

ABSTRACT

This essay has gone through the travails of the African woman in the society, how she is
ridiculed in the society and how she manages to redeem herself from the stigma placed on them.
This essay justifies these travails thereby putting up various reasons why women should not be
treated the way they are.

From this essay, we can say that the African society is a huge problem regarding the
travails of the African woman. They begin to judge and condemn women because of their
inabilitiestobore children noteven mindingotherconsequences that could standas a motivating
factor. Also,not onlysociety isto beblamed forthese butalso family has amajorroletoplay as
well.Theyaretheoriginatorsofthesetravailsbeforesocietyevenrealizesthem.