Research Paper on:
The Slave Girl by Buchi Emecheta and the Nigerian Woman's Role

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a simple family, who suffers greatly at the hands of slavery and the encroaching European society. Her journey is a journey of life. In her beginning we see how "Emecheta  creates a view of childhood as that stage in life where some freedom exists, freedom to be oneself, to be indulged, yet essentially a time that imparts the illusion that  the future will continue as such" (Dillon ed3.html). As her journey continues she finds that life is not necessarily as she once thought, and that freedom she ignorantly saw as  life, disappears, replaced by her role as a Nigerian woman. In the following paper we examine Emechetas story and illustrate how the Nigerian woman is portrayed in the novel.  The Nigerian Woman One of our first introductions to the Nigerian woman is through the character of Ojebetas mother. Ojebetas mother and father are both incredibly devoted parents. As  Dillon states, "Ojebetas parents coddle her, allowing her to breast feed for a long time: Let her suck: maybe that will help her realize how much we love and want  her (The Slave Girl, 23), her father says. The previous deaths of all their girl children spur Umeadi and Okwuekwu to outfit Ojebeta with charms to keep away tempting spirits  from the land of the dead, and she was cherished and marked with special tattooes (21)" (ed2.html). In this we see a Nigerian woman who is perhaps emotionally equal with  her husband. They are a couple who is clearly very connected and concerned with their daughter. Now, while this does not tell us much of a Nigerian womans position in  society, it does speak of the relationship a husband and wife may have in private and that is an incredibly important aspect of being a woman in a culture such