Browsing by Author "Amolo, Nelly Agunda"
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Co-wife Bonding in Sue Nyathi’s the Polygamist (2012) and Lola Shoneyin’s the Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives (2010)
Amolo, Nelly Agunda; Mosoti, Edwin; Odhiambo, Elizabeth (The International Journal Of Humanities & Social Studies, 2017-02)This paper explores the portrayal of co-wife bonding and its impact in polygamy in Sue Nyathi’s The Polygamist (2012) and Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives (2010) (hereafter referred to as Polygamist ... -
Polygamy and Identity: Deconstructing the woman Character in Selected Contemporary African Fiction
Amolo, Nelly Agunda (JOOUST, 2017)Polygamy constitutes one of the distinctive features of African marriage. Recent studies indicate that polygamy is still widely practised and that one third of wives in monogamous relationships in sub-Saharan Africa are ...