DISCERNIBLE CRACKS ON AFRICAN FEMINAL INTRAGROUP: A STUDY OF TESS ONWUEME’S THE REIGN OF WAZOBIA

Abstract

The African feminal intragroup is faced with victimization, as a result of some inimical behaviours exhibited by some African privileged women. Privileged Women who had ascertained themselves in political, economical, social, educational, etc., positions in African patriarchal society where gender oppression, inequality, subjugation abounds. Yet, the study reviews, in every twenty percent cases of female oppression, fifteen percent out of it, is perpetrated by a fellow a woman. No much attack has been launched on this aspect of gender discourse (woman-woman insubordination, victimization, and subjugation) as sighted in the patriarchal society. As a result, this paper hinges its theory on Focu-feminism. Focu- feminism is considered as a mental conception, which reveals woman-woman dehumanization, segregation and humiliation. Using Content Analysis method in discussing the data generated from the dramatic text (Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia) selected for the study, which evidently, unveils that intra gender oppression, discrimination, inequality and segregation (which are the discernible cracks) truly exist within the African Feminal intra group. As a result of this, this paper sustains the fact that just as we sighted gender oppression generates factions of man and woman, so is intra gender oppression generating have and have not, educated and uneducated, poor and rich, class and classless, etc. Sustaining that, women are their own real enemy.