Women's Violence against Women in Ofomata's Dibia Na-Agwo Otoro (Medicine-man that cures diarrhea)

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dc.contributor.authorOkafor, E. E.
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-08T09:59:20Z
dc.date.available2017-11-08T09:59:20Z
dc.date.issued2008
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dc.description.abstractOfomata is a prolific Igbo novelist who hails from Ogbunka in Anambra State. His novel, Dibia Na-agwo Otoro (2000), which has domestic violence as its theme portrays women as agents of disruption of peace and perpetrators of domestic violence. The novel depicts how the mother-in-law and the sister-in-law instigate domestic violence within the family. It, however, discusses how women suffer hatred and jealousy in the hands of their fellow women, particularly mothers-in- of Chioma, her sister-in-law, who use diabolic means to divert her (Ngozika's) husband's interest from her in order to kill or maim her for life. But she (Chioma) faces disappointments and later suffers the consequences for her wickedness. This paper highlights and examines some instances of domestic violence caused by women violence against women as portrayed in Dibia Na-Agwo Otoro, It further looks at how domestic violence destabilizes the home and breaches the peace that is essential for a cordial human relationship in the family. The paper also stresses the need to have a violence-free family and recommends some measures that can be adopted to achieve this. The paper further stresses that for a meaningful relationship among women to be achieved, women's violence against women needs to be discouraged.en_US
dc.identifier.citationOkafor, E. E. (2008), Women's Violence against Women in Ofomata's Dibia Na-Agwo Otoro (Medicine-man that cures diarrhea). Ihafa: Joumal of African Studies, Vol. 5. No 3 (2008)en_US
dc.identifier.issn1117 - 5257
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.unilag.edu.ng:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2825
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAfrican Cultural Instituteen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStaff Publications;1117 - 5257
dc.subjectViolence against womenen_US
dc.subjectAbused womenen_US
dc.titleWomen's Violence against Women in Ofomata's Dibia Na-Agwo Otoro (Medicine-man that cures diarrhea)en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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