A place of their own: A Comparative Study of Ama Ata Aidoos

Abstract

This paper exermine the context in which Afican women writers of diffrent generations write in order to track the evoloution of womens writins in terms of the issues the write about, how they writenand for whom they write. it engages feminist critical theories, particularly some of the controversies about what is African, African-American and Western zfemenisms. Ama Ata Aidoo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, two major Afican Women writers who represent the old guard and the new order are secrutinizedfor the ways they individually and collectivelypush the bprders of what is considered acceptable behaviour to produce changes in the dynamics of power between the genders.the complex ways in which women acquire a sence of self and agency in relation to intersecting discourses and power relation in the location of their respective novels is intrrogated. In so doing, the discussion focuses on marriage matrials infedelity, women individuality and matters of personal choiceas they arise in Aidoos Changes and Adichies Americanah.