Western Hegemony In Buchi Emecheta’s Adah’s Story.
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The well-knit African culture has its pride and dignity. Buchi Emecheta a diasporic Nigerian writer portrays the struggle of African women who enters their dream world, Britain. The self-esteem native Africans is squashed by the cultural hegemony of the West. The western passive cultural leadership resort to silent acceptance of the Blacks. Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of hybridity exposes the willing submission of Buchi Emecheta’s Adah. .
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