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Ifeoma Okoye is Nigeria’s preeminent socialist-feminist novelist. Neo-colonialist Nigeria under “flag independence” has been a theater of conflict where women’s rights have been suppressed as part of an imperialist ideological crusade. Okoye’s oeuvre presents us with examples of how individual women, as well as radical collectives, can find agency even as exploitative structures tighten their grip on the country.
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Ifeoma Okoye, Nigeria’s preeminent Marxist, socialist-feminist novelist is 82 years old this year (2019). Three years ago she published a grammar compendium aimed at ESL learners. In 2013, she came out with her masterpiece, The Fourth World, a novel that dealt with Enugu’s eponymous shanty and the avenues for reclaiming human agency there. Her long literary career started in the 1970s and has continued up to this day, with children’s...
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Mayer, A. (2019). Ifeoma Okoye (1937–). In: Ness, I., Cope, Z. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91206-6_150-1
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