African Women social identity in ama darko’s the Housemaid, buchi emecheta’s the slave girl and Chinua achebe’s things fall apart

In African societies, women are relegated to the second place because of what the patriarchal system imposes on them as their lot. The system encourages and supports men’s domination over women. In their respective novels Things Fall Apart, The Salve Girl and The Housemaid, Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta and Ama Darko show how women are ignored and considered as commodities. This research studies chronologically African women’s social identity going from the remote era to the contemporary one. The study intends to discover the roles of African women in African society especially after marriage. Firstly, the research reveals the female gender as submissive housewives, and later on, it shows how they acquire financial autonomy. Feminism, post colonialism and structural narratology are applied to deepen the analyses of the happenings in the selected corpus.