Race, Culture, and Identity
Feminism with a Big “F”: Ethics and the Rebirth of African Feminism in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street
The 21st century has seen an outpouring of works by African women
writers and many of them have been unabashedly feminist. These works
have one thing in common: they tell of bodies in pain and they provoke
pertinent ethical questions in that regard. This article examines Chika
Unigwe’s novel, On Black Sisters’ Street, and argues that it belongs to the
new generation of African women’s writing that recasts feminism as a
moral issue of our times. The novel draws attention to some of the central
issues of feminism: rights and dignities of the body of woman. In so doing,
it establishes women’s rights as fundamental human rights that have to be
addressed in Africa.
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