Brutality and Sexual Exploitation of Women in Amma Darko’s Faceless

Authors

  • Adewumi Samuel Idowu Department of Languages, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53555/ssh.v3i2.320

Keywords:

Brutality, Exploitation, Colonialism, Society, Decadence.

Abstract

This paper attempts a critical analysis of brutality and sexual exploitation in Amma Darko’s faceless. Historically, Africans before the advent of colonialism had a well ordered and preserved traditional ways of life, a policy well guided by the earliest African rulers. The legacy of civilization bequeathed by their colonial masters, to an extent, had negative effects on the Africans. This is not unconnected with the ways the new African rulers (leaders) have neglected executing social infrastructural needs of the
Africans, thus, throwing the African children into the wild societies (streets) to be devoured by hawks. This paper reveals Darko’s textual revelations of sexual exploitation and brutality of the African children (girls) as a result of our decadent societies. Darko highlights the nature, the causes and solutions to feminist issues in the contemporary Ghanaian society.

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Published

2017-02-28

How to Cite

Idowu, A. S. (2017). Brutality and Sexual Exploitation of Women in Amma Darko’s Faceless. International Journal For Research In Social Science And Humanities, 3(2), 01–09. https://doi.org/10.53555/ssh.v3i2.320

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2017): International Journal For Research In Social Science And Humanities

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