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And the men backed down! while Deborah led the war
(Department of Religious Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 2022) Olayinka, E. B.
Women of all ages have been major players on world stage. In the course of history, the narrative was manipulated leading to women being marginalised in the scheme of things in the socio-economic and political realms while men take the centre stage. The fields of gender and feminist studies are fertile grounds for the discourse on obliteration of women and their positive contribution to human development. The biblical example of Deborah in the book of Judges was used in the discussion of this theme. A critical analysis of Deborah's contributions to the restoration of Israel to God and its socio-political development was undertaken deploying Judith Butler's theory of performativity. This paper foregrounds that the basis for classifying women as subservient to the male gender in all endeavours of life is unfounded. Even though malestreaming of human endeavours is somewhat intractable, recent discoveries in the fields of gender and feminist studies are exposing the facticity of female performance of acts that male supremacist cultures fail to credit to amazons from antiquity to modem days.
Behind the curtains. A collection of feminist poems and others
(Ibadan University Press, Publishing House, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, 2020) Olayinka, E. B.
Blind devotion, violence and trauma in the works of Ka Maiga, Bassek and Mpoudi-Ngolle
(The Linguistics Association, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 2012) Sanusi, R.; Olayinka, E. B.
Bodies that matter: Calixthe Beyala’s female bodies and strategies of hegemonic subversion
(UCLA Graduate Students Association Publications, 2018) Olayinka, E. B.
Without challenging hegemony, liberal Francophone African feminists unearth aspects of patriarchal African cultural practices that objectify women. In contrast, radical Francophone African feminists call for drastic change to these practices through reappropriating the female body as a way to liberate African women from patriarchal oppression. They challenge the patriarchal order by opposing gender roles and stereotypes and by taking a decisive stand for total female liberation. They call for a radical reordering of patriarchal societies through the annulment of binary oppositions that classify women as “other.” In this article, I follow Judith Butler’s lead in Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sexl and explore Calixthe Beyala’s commitment to African women’s liberation from oppression. Beyala’s approach presents auto-eroticism, homicide, infanticide, refusal of marriage, bodily and psychical dis-eroticization, and physical transformation of female bodies as strategies to secure women’s freedom.
Bonjour
(Ibadan University Press, Publishing House, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 2019) Olayinka, E. B.
Corps feminin, corps saccage, corps mutile: la vie sans fard de la femme opprimee dans Je suis nee au harem de Choga Regina Egbeme
(Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 2016) Olayinka, E. B.
The theory of objectification of female body highlights the question of the subjugation of woman. This phenomenon causes a virulent violence done to women by men, reducing the former to her body without regard for her personality and integrity. For decades, feminists oppose this challenge of making the woman an object of sexual desire and re / production . Choga Regina Egbeme’s Je uis nee au harem ( I was born in harem) highlights the appalling damage that men do to women and raises the principle of the oppression of women in a notoriously hegemonic society. The experience of papa David’s wives and daughters throughout the autobiographic narrative is the testimony of many African women. Following her forced marriage to a downright aggressive man, who raped her, and consequently infected with HIV by him and the baby resulted from the rape, Choga, the eponymous protagonist of the novel, secretly fled the prison home where she lives with her co-wives to help children and women who fall victims of this scourge. This article is based on a purely autobiographical novel which bitterly denounces the subjugation of the African woman caught in an ethos gearing, of diseases and even thorny traditions. Despite years of anti-hegemonic feminist campaigns that emphasises revalorisation of the female body, it is found that the female body remains a political site of patriarchal force.
Corps feminin, corps saccage, corps mutile: la vie sans fard de la femme opprimee dans Je suis nee au harem de Choga Regina Egbeme
(Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 2016) Olayinka, E. B.
La theorie de la chosification du corps feminin souligne la problematique de la subjugation de la femme. Ce phenomene occasionne une violence virulente faite a la femme par l'homme, reduisant celle-la a son corps sans egards pour sa personnalite et son integrite. Depuis des decades, les feministes s'opposent a ce defi qui tente de faire de la femme un objet de desir sexuel et de re/production. Je suis nee au harem de Choga Regina Egbeme met en relief les degats atroces que cause l'homme a la femme et releve le principe de l'oppression de la femme au sein d'une societe notoirement hegemonique. Le vecu des femmes et des filles de papa David est un echantillon de temoignage de beaucoup de femmes Africaines tout au long de l'ceuvre. Suite a son mariage force a un homme carrement agressif, violee par lui, et consequemment atteinte par le VIH/SIDA ainsi que le bebe issu de ce viol, Choga, la protagoniste eponyme du roman, fuit clandestinement le 'foyer-prison' ou elle vit avec ses coepouses afm d'aider les enfants et les femmes victimes de ce fleau. Cet article qui s'appuie sur un roman purement autobiographique denonce avec amertume l'assujettissement de la femme africaine prise dans.un engrenage d'ethos, de maladies, voire de traditions epineuses. En depit des annees.de campagnes anti- hegemoniques que mene le feminisme pour la revalorisation du corps feminin, on constate que le corps feminin demeure un site de politique du coup de force patriarcal.
Depuis monsieur thoghognini, le destin africain predit a bon ou a mal escient?
(Nigeria French Language Village, Lagos, 2023) Olayinka, E. B.
Que les impacts du contact de l’Occident avec le monde africain entrainent des cotes positifs ainsi que negatifs n’est pas a nier. Depuis le moment ou les elites africaines ont pris la plume pour des productions litteraires, quelques-uns parmi eux ont su dissequer et predire le destin africain. Dans le champ theatral, Bemand Binlin Dadie est l’un des dramaturges africains a l’avant-garde. Se basant sur le concept du colonialisme domestique propose par Harold Cruse en 1962, cet article sur Monsieur Thogo-gnini (MT) s’oblige de faire une analyse critique de la capacite de Dadie a relever l’unicite de son oeuvre dans la prediction du destin de l’Afrique postcoloniale bien en avance. II disseque la maniere dont l’auteur a pu presager le destin de l’Affique d’aujourd’hui. Le travail focalise sur le theme de l’assujettissement des Noirs par les Noirs en commen9ant par les empreintes du colonialisme laissees par les Blancs grace a la complicity des leaders africains. L’Affique etant un continent a realite diversifiee, elle continue de vivre en commun l’imperialisme colonial ce qui egale l’imperialisme economique et socio-politique. La situation dont l’Afrique se retrouve apres les independances porte en elle les vestiges du colonialisme du au fait que le colonialisme n’a jamais pris fin. Ce qui creve les yeux a l’Afrique est evidemment le statut des pays africains fragiles et incapables de toutes formes de deyeloppement durable occasionnes par l’inertie et le deficit moraux des dirigeants d’Etats qui ne s’interessent qu’a leur sort, pensant moins du sort du continent et de sa population.
Emerging trends in gender war and intimate partner violence
(Department of French, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria, 2019-11) Olayinka, E. B.
African feminist literary texts most often document that patterns of intimate partner violence are as a result of socio-culturally imposed structuration in the hierarchy of the sexes, due to cultural determinisms. Hence, it is in most cases assumed that only, women are victims of intimate male partner violence. There are growing concerns that men may just be as well victims of intimate female perpetrated violence. This research investigates roles of female body and sexuality in perpetrating violence against men for the purpose of subverting masculine power in two selected plays from Isaie Biton Koulibaly's anthology, Encore les femmes ... toujours les femmes! The concept of bodiliness is used to investigate the amount of power the female body is able to deploy in quest for female emancipation. The research finds that radical females in the selected short stories deploy powers resident in the body and non-normative sexuality practices to script a new trend of shift in the occurrence and performance of gender violence in intimate relationships. The subversion of hegemony and relegation of male characters is contingent upon the resoluteness of the female characters to use their bodies and sexuality as weapons to undo prescribed gender norms..
Gender inequality: African feminist fiction reflecting scientific data
(GMO, University of Ibadan, 2013) Olayinka, E. B.
When one mentions the situation of women anywhere in the world today, certain issues inevitably come to mind. Issues such as oppression of women, feminism and women's struggle for liberation, woman as liberated-subaltern in organisations, sexuality and sexism, among others. These are issues that have often trailed humanity. Available answers do not yet adequately address the woman question. We are in a complex situation, a complex world that smacks of gender war in the midst of gendered rhetoric. The matter of Sub-Saharan African women's evolution calls to mind immense, complex and culturally multifarious questions that surround women in the region and the fast changing world of African culture, relating to issues of family, education, work and lifestyle. The compass of women development in the region is therefore multidirectional. This necessitates knowing her pre-colonial past, her colonial status and her post- or neo-colonial condition. This paper therefore looks at the African woman under the three stages above, with particular attention on the Nigerian woman of today.
Les idiomes/parlers jeunes comme marqueur d’epoque et d’identite collective
(University of Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed Publisher, 2017-08) Olayinka, E. B.; Ayeleru, B.
Madness and free association in Evelyne Mpoudi Ngolle's Sous la cendre le feu
(Department of European Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 2007) Olayinka, E. B.
Psychoanalytic insight facilitates the analysis of works of art through which literary analysts are able to access the psyche of authors and their character. (M.M. Schwartz and D. Willbern:1982). One of such psychoanalytic device is free association. Free association technique applied during psychotherapy sessions provides a royal road into a psyche of humans as can be observed in Mina’s case in Mpoudi Ngolle’s Sous la cendre le feu. This paper concludes that repression of negative and unpleasant experiences lived within patriarchal limitations as promoted by African male hegemonic traditions, subjects women-victim of oppression to anxiety disorder which may occur in the form of depression, schizophrenia, obsessive disorder, depersonalization, derealisation among others. It seems natural to think about literature in terms of dreams. Like dreams, literary works are fictions, inventions of the mind that, although based on reality, are by definition not literary true. Like a literary work, a dream may have some truth to tell, but, like a literary work can be grasped. (R.C. Murfin, (internet article: accessed 30 May, 2011: 502)
Morphing restrictive gender roles into performative gender roles in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s hibiscus pourpre
(Department of Religious Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria., 2021-06) Olayinka, E. B.
Through feminist literature and other forms of feminist endeavours to institutionalise gender equality, the notion of biology is destiny as identified by the social and natural sciences has come under the attack of feminists. Debunking the stereotyping of women and assignation and restriction of specific gender roles to specific sex whereby certain roles are christened as women’s roles and certain others as men’s roles is part of this feminist project. In Hibiscus Poupre, Chimamanda Adichie weaves in the flexibility of roles to engage with the theme of gender roles and performativity. From what she demonstrates, the fixity of gender roles through decades of cultural construction can be deconstructed and reconstructed to foster harmony among the genders. Womanism as a theory that focuses on complementarity of gender roles is used to interrogate and x-ray the subtle ways in which the author downplays gender role stereotyping and brings to the fore the pivotal roles of African Women using Igbo ethos construct as model. Under the pretext of being a practising Catholic, Eugene, Tatie Ifeoma’s biological brother, neglects the care of his aged father whom he accuses of idolatry. He thus jettisons the traditional roles expected of a male child in Igbo society. The female, Tatie Ifeoma is seen laden with the responsibilities that the male child fails to carry out traditionally. Within her household, chores are shared between male and female children without pigeonholing of roles. Every member of the family diligently carries out their responsibilities without reference to whether a particular chore is meant for female or male. This is seen to be one of the core factors for harmony in Tatie Ifeoma’s household where the latter, a widow and poorly paid faculty at the University of Nsukka, plays the family head. In conclusion, emphasises that gender performativity is not typecast. The author demonstrates how Western religion is used to obliterate and suppress traditional African religions and their practitioners. Gender role iteration is also allowed in reversed order to deconstruct conventional tradition of allocating roles based on gender.
Narrating juvenile mental disorders in Calixthe Beyala's selected novels
(School of Human Sciences at the Polytechnic of Namibia, 2014) Olayinka, E. B.
Critics of Calixthe Beyala's feminist discourse have located her narratives within the walls of radicals feminism. For instance, her feminist language is often labelled with linguistics violence. Beyala's outcry against oppression is voiced through adolescent girls who she refers to as femme-fillette and whose gloomy world is characterised by parental violence. The social and psychological degradation of the children Beyala presents in her novels are instances of immeasurable misery impregnated with aggression of adults towards children. Through these same children, Beyala impugns various forms of disintegration eating into postcolonial Africa. Introducing a psychological paradigm into the readings and interpretations of Beyala's radical feminist works using Freudian psychoanalytic approach to literary criticism and Nietsche's theory of resentment clearly shows that Beyala is a feminist author whose anger is directed towards male hegemony, and it forms the avenue through which she aptly portrays that young girls living under oppression decline into psychological wrecks.
Narrating juvenile mental disorders in Calixthe Beyala’s selected novels
(School of Human Sciences, Polytechnic of Namibia, 2014-12) Olayinka, E. B.
Critics of Calixthe Beyala’s feminist discourse have located her narratives within the walls of radical feminism. For instance, her feminist language is often labelled with linguistic violence. Beyala’s outcry against oppression is Voiced through adolescent girls who she refers to as femme-fillette and whose gloomy world is characterised by parental violence. The social and psychological degradation of the children Beyala presents in her novels are instances of immeasurable misery impregnated with aggression of adults towards children. Through these same children, Beyala impugns various forms of disintegration eating into postcolonial Africa. Introducing a psychological paradigm into the readings and interpretations of Beyala’s radical feminist works using Freudian psychoanalytic approach to literary criticism and Nietsche’s theory of resentment clearly shows that Beyala is a feminist author whose anger is directed towards male hegemony, and it forms the avenue through which she aptly portrays that young girls living under oppression decline into psychological wrecks.
The oppressor is oppressed and in a pathological state too: Calixthe Beyala and Bauchi Emecheta's male characters
(Department of European Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 2010) Olayinka, E. B.
Quand la vie provient du fracas: une etude psychanalytique des protagonistes enfantins de quand les etoiles deviennent noires de Rebecca Ayoko et et I’aube se leva de fatou keita
(Department of French, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, 2017-10) Olayinka, E. B.; Adesuyan, B. I.
Cette communication entreprend la juxtaposition de la vie d ’line auteure vis-a-vis celle d’un personnage fictif pour etablir le fait que les vecus enfantins repousses dans Vinconscient resurgent de temps en temps pour motiver lews actions au niveau conscienl. De mime, elle prouve, a travers les decouvertes suite a nos analyses, que les actions'humaines ne sont point fortuites, mats que celles-ci ne proviennent que des experiences receives dans Vinconscient humaifi. Ainsi, avons-nous sou mis Ouand les etoiles deviennent noires de Rebecca Ayoko et Et I'aube se leva de Fatou Keita a une analyse psychanalytique pour esqtiisser un franc lien entre les vecus enfantins et la metamorphose des personnages enfantins romanesques qui connaissent une vie fragmentaire psychologique. Aussi tournans-nous notre attention vers la psyche pour investiguer la tripartie interaction des trois compartiments de i 'appareil psyche humain - le Ca, le Moi, et le Surmoi, et de lew fonctionnement a travers des experiences du vioLqu 'out siibies les personnages investigues. La theorie psychanalytique de Sigmund Freud s'occupe principalement de l 'operation de I’inconscient constituant, selon lui, la partie integrants de la personnalite humaine. Bien siir que Freud pretend que '-Vinconscient est le psychisme lui-meihe, car pour lui, ce qui se figure dans la conscience n'esl qu 'une partie infinitesimale de l 'iceberg. De maniere systematique entee dans la theorie psychanalytique, cette communication a pu enteriner que. la capacite du Moi d’intervenir et de jouer son role de medialeur d’une faqon salubre aboutit a une bonne jin. D un, autre cote, l 'eckec du Moi a jouer ce role preponderant avec succes s 'avere souvent aleatoire a la smite mentale.
Religio-cultural and poetic constructions of the subaltern African woman
(Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 2012) Sanusi, R.; Olayinka, E. B.
The colonial experience, particularly the introduction of Christianity and Islam in Africa., altered the African socio-cultural equation and ways of life. Europeans and Arab missionaries diligently spread their religious beliefs which fused with some African cultural practices and subsequently determined the status of African women, in particular. Suffice it to say that colonialism, Christianity and Islam masculinised any territory upon which they inflicted themselves and dismantled the matriarchal system that mutually coexisted with patriarchy in some pre-colonial African societies. They also provided an ideological framework for the social roles of women, which subordinated them to their male counterparts. Besides, the poetic constructions of African women on the literary platform of Negritude largely contributed in reinforcing this subaltern image and secondary roles ascribed to African women, heightened by colonialism and promoted by new religious doctrines and practices. The textual representation of African women as mothers, in terms of their nurturing capacities, placed them in an essentially problematic position, and conferred on them a purely domestic role. It is quite cheering to note, however, that this unhealthy subordination of the African woman is rapidly giving way to the notion of gender equity, founded on new religio-cultural principles, and facilitated by women's access to western education, modernization, and the systematic 'eboulement' or dismantling of the African partriarchal culture.
Sentiments caches : recueil de poemes feministes et autres
(Ibadan University Press, Publishing House, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, 2023) Olayinka, E. B.
The oppressor is oppressed and in a pathological state too: Calixthe Beyala and Buchi Emecheta’s male characters
(Department of European Studies, University of Ibadan, 2010) Olayinka, E. B.