Buchi Emechetas Ona

Buchi Emechetas Ona "Ona" is like a love story. Because it is a story about ritualized beliefs and cultural behavior patterns, usually taking into account certain cultural stories and using symbols of a specific culture to achieve themes. Therefore, many indigenous stories contain a wide range of belief patterns that will serve as a background for allowing the reader to relate to the story and its content. Buchi Emecheta's "Ona" is a powerful love story centered on the ritualized beliefs and cultural behavior patterns of African tribes.

Overall, Buchi Emecheta's "Ona" is a powerful love story portraying ritualized beliefs and cultural behavior patterns of African tribes. Although Abadi is a wealthy young man with many mistresses, he can not conquer the Ona. Ona had been trained to imagine the boy, refusing to be conquered by a man through marriage. But she decided not to marry her beloved Abadi. It is the result of cultural power and her loyalty to these forces. When she gets married, Ona loses the opportunity to assert masculinity, because Ona will not be able to name his son after his father. While Agadi and Ona are the products of their culture to the last, love can not obviously conquer cultural norms and customs.

Buchi Emecheta was born in Lagos, Nigeria on July 21, 1944. She moved to the UK in 1960 and started working as a librarian. In 1970 she studied at the University of London and got a degree. Sociology During the period started in 1970, Emecheta worked as a community worker in North London. Like her earlier feminist writer, her work mainly focuses on politics of race, gender, and gender, based on her personal experience. Her first novel "In the Ditch" was published in 1972 and published in "New Politician" magazine. This novel, along with her second novel, Second-class Citizen, provides a prospect of the living of poor Nigerian women. And it is trying to integrate into one of the biggest cities in Europe (Biography: Buchi Emecheta, 2015)

Buchi Emecheta's "pleasure of women" and Tsitsi Dangarembga's tension has reduced the status of women. Since the Victorian era, the decline of the status of women has become an impediment to the development of society. A considerable number of authors wrote various novels depicting this tragic situation such as "female pleasure" by Buchi Emecheta and "neuropathy" by Tsitsi Dangarembga. Choosing to compare these two novels gets a good approach and their hero encounters the same problem despite many differences.