Transcending the Age of Androcentric Representations in African Women’s Writing

African Literature has been the field of male writers and lacked feminine lens for a long time. These have depicted woman as obedient who obeys man without discussion. However, this unrealistic presentation rectified only after rise women writers. As more got educated started to participate in social political fields, portraying reporting changes they experiencing their contemporary societies. suffering patriarchal communities, could feel agonies these living subjugation men since old times. Using Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen Mariama Bâ’s So Long Letter, article analyses how female cleverly surreptitiously carved out themselves advantages immunities which ordinary even never imagine. Such statuses were like personal identity cards neither outlived them nor reveled by other during existence.