Live to Win: A Study on women’s voice in Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta.

Abstract

This paper explores the power of women’s voice in Nigeria in Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta. Emecheta focuses on education as the most essential tool for female empowerment. Her work portrays the experiences of African womanhood in bold andinsubordinate. In this work the writer traces her life through the character Adah. Adah realizes marriage as a means to escape from the traditional bond. This study explained the journey from Ibuza to London. In London they are looking for the first class job. They are treated as the second class citizen among them. The Protagonist fought with the society to gain her identity among the first class citizen. This paper highlights the powerful fight in Society Adah wages to bear herself as a child, teenager, daughter, wife and mother.