Female Writers in Modern African Literature: A Study of Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Roses and Bullets

Over decades, liberation of African women from every form of prejudice, subjugation, mystical and diabolic beliefs and evils of traditions and cultures have been a matter which draws varying concern among female writers in African. These writers draw conclusion from the anomalies, unacceptable fate foolishness of African cultures and traditions in treatment of women. However, this research work exposes the various cases and conditions noted to the African women in their different societies in Africa. This study becomes a yardstick through which these African female writers like Sefi Atta and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo project the lives of those women in Africa who are under such unfavourable conditions. Through the events and actions of their characters, they picture African women as they censure in a world of realism. Through the lenses of feminism, the said cultures and traditions humiliated the African women in both Everything Good Will Come and Roses and bullets. Conclusively, this research work is based on the previous facts raised by other researchers to bring to light the evils of African traditions and their effects on women using feministic approach as its theoretical frame work.