Amma Darko’s Contribution in Beyond the Horizon to Contemporary Gender Portrayals

Abstract

This paper tackles the critical issue of an African type of feminism through the novelist Amma Darko’s depiction of her male characters using African cultural values and day-to-day realities in contemporary Ghana. The study reveals that African female writers like Amma Darko develop their own way of writing social and cultural constraints. It aims at rejecting the image depicted by African male writers and opens the floor to male characters portrayal as violent, selfish, and responsible for the women’s social and economic hardship. Thus, we demonstrate how Amma Darko attempts to present her African male characters in Beyond the Horizon based on the ordeals of female characters in most patriarchal situations in Africa.