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The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta Summary in Urdu and Hindi | Characters
Buchi Emecheta, which is considered one of the best novelists. She has written many literary works. The Joys of Motherhood is considered one of her best novels. This fiction is about an African woman who suffers too much in her life. People taunt him for having no kids meanwhile, she was blamed for many things...
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The Joys of Motherhood is the 1979 novel written by Nigerian-born British author Buchi Emecheta. Set in Lagos, Nigeria over the course of decades, the tragic story follows Nnu Ego, a young African woman struggling to overcome her temporary inability to rear children and embrace a motherly role in a patriarchal society. Unable to conceive a child in her first marriage, Nnu Ego is banished to Lagos, where she eventually gives birth to several children and redefines her role in the community. As Nnu Ego grapples with the traditional values and customs of becoming a “mother,” “wife” and “woman,”
she must do everything in her power to protect her children and maintain her dignity. In 2008, The Joys of Motherhood was reissued in Heinemann’s African Writers Series.
Narrated in the third-person omniscient perspective, the story begins in 1930s Lagos, Nigeria. An African woman named Nnu Ego ambles across the Yaba property in a state of depression and grief. Nnu Ego wanders to the water’s edge of Carter Bridge with intentions to leap off and commit suicide. The story jumps backward 25 years in time.
In the village of Ogboli in the Ibuza homeland, the proud and dignified local chief, Agbadi, has only one object of desire, an attractive and self-determined woman named Ona. While hunting one day, Agbadi is bludgeoned to near death by an elephant. Ona steadily nurtures him back to health. When he heals, Agbadi disgraces Ona with crude sexual advancements. A near rape ensues, resulting in Ona becoming pregnant. Agbadi declares that if the baby is a boy, it will belong to his father. If it’s a girl, Agbadi will claim ownership. Nine months later, Nnu Ego is born and Ona dies during childbirth.
A local shaman declares Nnu Ego’s “chi” or guiding spirit is that of a slave child who was murdered and buried with one of Agbadi’s wives.
When Nnu Ego is 16, she is engaged to wed a man named Amatokwu. However, their relationship weakens after she is unable to become pregnant. Nnu Ego is transported to a different hut to assume a new role. She becomes demoted to tending the fields and caretaking for the new wife’s baby son. Amatokwu finds Nnu Ego breastfeeding the hungry baby and beats her for it. Nnu Ego goes home to recover, at which point her wedding engagement is dissolved.
Determined to find his daughter a better suitor, Agbadi arranges a marriage between Nnu Ego and a man named Nnaife, who resides in faraway Lagos. Nnaife’s older brother takes Nnu Ego to Lagos to settle into her new environment.
Nnu Ego and Nnaife reside in the Yaba compound in Lagos. Nnaife launders clothes for the Meers, an English couple. Nnu Ego enjoys a happy marriage and gives birth to a son named Ngozi. Nnu Ego also begins selling cigarettes and matches on the side of the road. One day, Nnu Ego discovers Ngozi’s dead body in their one-room abode. Hopelessly devastated, Nnu Ego speeds to Carter Bridge with plans to jump off and commit suicide.
Nwakusor, a local Ibo man just off of work, passes by and helps a crowd of people prevent Nnu Ego from leaping off the bridge. Afterwards, Nnu Ego struggles through a long process of grieving the death of Ngozi. She eventually has another baby named Oshia. Nnu Ego decides to spend less time at her roadside market stall and instead focus all of her attention on raising Oshia. However, when the Meers are forced back to England, Nnaife loses his job, necessitating Nnu Ego to continue selling cigarettes and matches. Naife finds work that takes him far away from home. In his absence, British troops enter the area and tell Nnu Ego she and Oshia must vacate immediately.
Nnu Ego relocates across town, where she gives birth to another son, Adim. Without aid, the woman and child suffer malnutrition. Their neighbors offer a helping hand. Later, Nnaife returns home with a bundle of cash. As Nnu Ego is awarded a permanent post in the marketplace to sell cigarettes, she encourages Nnaife to find a new job.
One day, Nnaife is informed from a friend that his brother has died in Ibuza...
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