Some Impediments to African Women’s Emancipation and Potential Outcomes as seen in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions

Whatever you are is never enough. You must find a way to accept something, however small, from the other to make you whole and to save you from the mortal sin of righteousness and extremism. Chinua Achebe. This article analyzes African women’s overexploitation by men. The key concepts such as patriarchy, patriarchy, poverty, gender construction and cultural alienation emancipation show an impediment of African women in terms of education since Tambu one of African women is prevented from education by her parents.