FEMINISM AND THE NORTHERN NIGERIAN MALE WRITERS: A CASE STUDY OF GIMBA’S SACRED APPLES

The paper explores feminist tendencies among the northern Nigerian male novelists and uses Gimba's Sacred Apples as a representative study to depict how male novelists champion the cause of women liberation. Feminist theory is used in the analysis of the primary text. From the onset feminism has been and still is the way forward for the emancipation of women from male subjugation and this suggests social freedom that ensured equal treatment of all sexes. The findings revealed that there is growing gender consciousness among the northern Nigerian male writers of the three generations discussed in the paper. Because instead of the female authors, it is the male writers who are portraying the ways in which the patriarchal male dominated society of the northern Nigerian region oppresses women.