The Stillborn

By:

Alkali, Zaynab

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Longman Group Ltd ; 1984Description: 106ISBN:

0-582-78600-2

Subject(s):

Fiction

Summary: This novel takes one to the heart of an African village, into huts and down to streams to collect water and firewood, as we follow Li’s choices in life. One cannot ignore the harsh patriarchal rules imposed on women in this society. Women are meant to stay home and wait for proposals, or for their husbands to come home. Women wait, while men go out in search of their destinies...

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Zaccheus Onumba Dibiaezue Memorial Libraries	823 ALK / N	Available		09393
Books	Zaccheus Onumba Dibiaezue Memorial Libraries	823 ALK / N	Available		01872

This novel takes one to the heart of an African village, into huts and down to streams to collect water and firewood, as we follow Li’s choices in life. One cannot ignore the harsh patriarchal rules imposed on women in this society. Women are meant to stay home and wait for proposals, or for their husbands to come home. Women wait, while men go out in search of their destinies...

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