![]() ![]() This chapter reflects on how Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in multifarious ways, projects and confronts a nuanced (and blatant) exaltation of maleness over femaleness in her fiction. ![]() History never truly forgives silence individuals and society eventually pay a heavy price for it. It is concluded that truth-telling or speaking out at the appropriate time is a duty it is not a privilege. This approach takes into consideration the narrative techniques, characterisation and language used in the novel. The paper also discusses the impact of the author's style in driving home her message by using a qualitative approach. ![]() It considers the price that comes with silence under extreme religious, patriarchal, and autocratic leadership in Adichie's Purple hibiscus. This paper pitches the price of silence against the benefits of the practice of the theory of parrhesia as elucidated by Foucault. Consequently, individuals, families, as well as nations pay dearly for not speaking out under extreme tyranny. ![]() People prefer to live in pain and anguish to losing certain privileges, status, favours, relationships, or their lives. The vulnerable are afraid to voice their grievances due to the treatment that might be meted out to them as a consequence of their outburst. With the crystalisation of the disillusionment in political leadership that marked post-independence Africa comes the recurring fear and terror in many an African home, society, and country. ![]()
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