Question

a brief summary of home sweet home by ken Saro-Wiwa-wiwa

Answer 1

Summary of "Home sweet home" by ken Saro-Wiwa-wiwa

Explanation:

• Home sweet home is written by Ken Saro-Wiwa, it is about the Nigerian culture that still exists and that is all about how it oppresses women in their tradition.

• It is a story about a Nigerian woman who got an education and when she came back to her hometown she got to know how her best friend was sent away for giving birth to twins.

• The writer has shown how there is no hope for them to become better can get out of a living hell.

Answer 2

In Home Sweet Home, the poet has revealed as to how Nigerian traditional society is engaged in the exploitation of women.

• It's a gloomy story of an affluent Nigerian woman returning home who discovers that her best friend has been forced out of town for twin-bearing.
• The poet shows that Western development, faced with provincialism and ignorance, is unable or inadequate to improve the living conditions for Dukana 's women.
• In the story, the Dukana people want improvement because it confers respect, and not because they want a meaningful change. It is told to change the women's lives in Dukana, but they should not be taught to be disrespectful to their husbands.
• Chinua Achebe proposes solutions to this issue of women's status in Nigerian society and delineates how the process is complicated by mixing Western ideas with gender and traditional attitudes.
• Achebe addresses the issue of adopting a unique Nigerian path of change and addresses the challenges posed by traditional Nigerian culture and Westernization and Colonialism.