Gender Politics in Northern Nigerian Literature

Generally, gender issues, women cum their plight have occupied the front burners of the academic discussion. Reason that many institutions have no choice than to academies gender study as autonomous department (as a field of study). Perhaps, this range from the importance both the creator and the created attached to it. For God mentioned that he had created man and woman so as to know and be acquainted with each other (Qur'an, 49:13; Gen.1:27-28). But often times, the cardinal genesis which wrought about gender and its problem lies for the fact women have been being marginalized. This perpetrated that any moment the word gender is mentioned what comes to our minds is women and their problems (even though the concept encompasses more than that). Menakshi, (2012) in a research reveals that the rate at which women have been discriminated reach to the level that they are not welcomed at the time of birth in many society. Sometimes, mother and God are cursed, the child is fed only now and then, deliberately ignored.

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Muhammad Badamasi Tsaure es licenciado por la Universidad Usmanu Danfodiyo de Sokoto (Nigeria). Es miembro de la Sociedad Literaria de Nigeria. Ha presentado trabajos en conferencias nacionales e internacionales. Sus áreas de interés académico incluyen la literatura africana, la literatura de los africanos en la diáspora y el inglés nigeriano.