Akachi- Adimora Ezeigbo’s Dancing Masks and “Snail Sense”: A Postcolonial Reading

Abstract

The paper looks at issues of nationhood and gender and the commitment of female writers in Africa in general and Nigeria in particular, to intervene through their works. There is a meeting point between theory and the art in the sense that the author evaluates Ezeigbo's theory of 'snail sense feminism through one of her poetry collections. The conclusion of the paper credits Ezeigbe's objective assessment of the social maladies in her poetry but raises questions on the practicability of the nature of negotiation mooted by the poet and theorist