Osayimwense Osa

The Bride Price: an African Feminist Young Adult Novel Osayimwense Osa

The Bride Price - An African feminist young adult novel is a critical study of Buchi Emecheta's The Bride Price, a masterpiece and classic of African and World children's and young adult literature. In African Children's and Youth Literature in the Twayne's World Authors series, Osayimwense osa devoted a chapter of discussion to The Bride Price. In this book, The Bride Price - An African feminist young adult novel, he goes into more nuances and subtleties of the dowry and the various marriages, and more depth and more detail in dealing with the conformists and the non-conformists in the novel concentrating particularly on the fate of Aku-nna, the African young girl who "dared to disturb" the universe of a conservative African community.