Importance of Motherhood in Bucchi Emerchetta’s Joys of Motherhood

This study aims at examining the relevance of Emecheta’s themes of Motherhood in her work Joys of Motherhood. It is centred on issues of gender and sexuality to the extent that ideological implications in her fiction have almost been ignored. Buchi Emecheta's novel The Joys of Motherhood (1979) is the story of a woman's struggle in a rapidly changing African society. This novel besides being based on racism and oppression also recognizes the fragmented nature of racial and gendered identity. Nnu Ego, a Nigerian woman, the daughter of Nwokocha Agbadi, a rich local chief meets the reversal off or tune when she leaves her former husband and moves to Lagos to many Nnaife. This article will try to depict the tumultuous life of Nnu Ego as she is caughtin the traversing space between the external and the internal, symbolizing a cultural experience of conflict in the face of a wretched life of the new colonial society. It will try to address the conflict situation of a woman exiled from the pristine land where she is born.