Igbo Women's Emancipation in Flora Nwapa's Women Are Different

The present study casts light on Igbo women’s emancipation in Flora Nwapa’s Women Are Different. In this respect, our purpose is to show how Nwapa suggests a narration based on Igbo women’s emancipation in her Women Are Different. As such, the matter in this study lies on the realities experienced by Igbo women that Flora Nwapa resorts to portray the emancipation in her novel. In the same token, how does Nwapa define the Igbo women’s emancipation in Women are Different? For the achievement of this study, we resort to sociological, psychological and feminist approaches. As results, Flora Nwapa resorts to various stories and social situations related to Igbo women to define their emancipation. Furthermore, Nwapa purposely resorts to the stories of education, travel and success in life of Igbo women’s life experience to illustrate her concern on the portrayal of Igbo women’s emancipation. As a matter of fact, Flora Nwapa’s novel, Women Are Different remains a fight for the Igbo young girls’ emancipation.