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Volume 18:1 January 2018
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Modern Women in Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story –
Esi and Opokuya

R. Jothi Rathinabai


Abstract

Using the feminist qualified by the sociological critical framework, this paper demonstrates how the psychological disposition of the characters in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story exhibits the mentality of urban-dwellers, revealing some western culture contact and conflict with traditional African culture. Consequently, it also attempts to analyse how Aidoo artistically exploits the disorganization of social life and the disintegration and erosion of traditional values in post–colonial Africa extrapolating from Ghana for the amelioration of women’s condition. Esi and Opokuya the two middle class modern educate African women are compared and contrasted in this work.

Keywords: Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story, Love, Marriage, Culture, friendship between women.

Institution of Marriage

Every human society has a body of beliefs that standardize the way people behave and relate to each other in the society. Over the years, these beliefs and mode of behavior are modified to suit the changing circumstances of the society concerned. The customs, traditions and beliefs have, over the years, helped to keep women under subjugation, and to make them feel generally inferior to men and incapable of operating at the same level as men in society. These are: the institution of marriage with its related issues of bride-wealth, child-marriage, polygamy, purdah, widowhood and inheritance of poverty, high fertility and puberty rites with specific reference to female circumcision.

The institution of marriage is a very important one in all African societies. It is primarily a union between two families, rather than between two individuals. Traditionally, marriages are arranged between two families. Love between a young man and a young woman was not in it-self considered legitimate grounds for marriage. A young man and a woman living in Britain, Europe, America or anywhere else outside their own country, would not normally go through with a marriage ceremony until the man’s parents have gone to ask for the woman’s hand from her family.

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