SEXISM AND PARTRIACHAL POWER STRUGGLE IN ZAYNAB ALKALI’S THE STILL BORN AND FATIMA BA’ARAM ALKALI’S PESONAL ANGLE

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This paper examines the fiction of Zaynab Alkali and that of her biological and generational successor, Fatima Ba’aram Alkali with a view to observing their sensitivity to the plight of women in the Nigerian society. While the older Alkali depicts her heroines as timid and passive, the younger writer demonstrates that education and cosmopolitan living and drastically changed women’s outlook about life and their reaction to marriage, sex, and patriarchy. The paper thus believes there is a theological and chronological development amongst Nigerian female writers shifting from moderate to radical agitations for women’s rights in the 21st century. The researcher uses sexism which is an aspect of the feminist theory to explore and analyse the literary books in question.