Description
In post-colonial Nigeria, Amaka—capable, ambitious, and determined—finds that building a life of her own is far more complicated than she expected. As she navigates marriage, family expectations, and the pressures placed on women, her search for independence becomes both a personal reckoning and a cultural challenge. With a sharp, empathetic focus on everyday choices and emotional consequences, the novel explores themes of selfhood, motherhood, economic agency, and the power dynamics embedded in relationships. Flora Nwapa’s distinctive storytelling—rooted in lived experience and attentive to Igbo social realities—echoes the concerns of her earlier heroines while offering a bold, radical vision of what it means to say, in the end, that one life is enough.
Available Editions
paperback
Africa World Press
Published Jan 1, 1992
154 pages
ISBN: 9780865433229
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First Published
1981
Language
eng
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