ASPECTS OF FEMALE STRUGGLE IN BINWELL SINYANGWE’S A COWRIE OF HOPE.

Abstract

Binwell Sinyangwe’s A Cowrie of Hope exposes the plight of Gambian women
enmeshed in the trap of patriarchy and the struggle they initiate to free themselves from this
suffocating system. These struggles are epitomized by Nasula, an illiterate woman who
shoulders the burden of resistance. In his will to contribute to the building of a genderless
society which empowers women, Sinyangwe makes this female struggle result into success.
This paper scrutinizes this struggle in a Marxist Feminist perspective.