The literary terrain of Buchi Emecheta is the domestic experience of female characters and the way in which these characters try to turn the tables against the second-class and servile status to which they are subjected by their husbands or by chauvinist traditions. Reading Buchi Emecheta informs us about the ways in which fiction, particularly women's writing, plays a role in building a world in which women can live full lives; a world that can offer women opportunities for freedom, creativity, self-expression, friendship and love. Wesley Brown Lloyd is convinced of this; “among all the writers of contemporary African literature, Buchi Emecheta of Nigeria has been the most sustained and vigorous voice of direct feminist protest” (35) Buchi Emecheta's main concern is to provide an image of African women of which there is none nothing to smile about. Providing readers with an image drawn primarily from her own life, she articulates the oppression, predicament, and uncertainty prevalent in the lives of African women whom she terms “peasant women.” In addition to providing an image of the traditional African woman, Emecheta also has a keen eye in how she realistically treats women after the colonization of the country. It shows that the postcolonial woman's identity is fluid and dislocates in various positions in an ever-changing continuum. What prevails in Emecheta's work is generally an intense anger at the sexual discrimination at the heart of his people's culture and a concomitant contempt for the men who perpetrate it. Joya Uraizee says about her:In her writings female identity is a product of the ideological history that surrounds her, she describes female subjectivity in terms of fragmentation, displacement,......middle of paper......2 ( 2004):365-373.Schneider, Gregory. “The Guide of RK Narayan and Kehinde by Buchi Emecheta”www.assosiatedcontent.com/article.Stanford Friedman, Susa. “Localized Feminism: Gender, Cultural Geographies, and Geopolitical Literacy.” www. Women.it/cyberarchive/files/Stanford.htm Ure Mezu, Rose. “The Other's Perspective: Rape and Women in Buchi Emecheta's The Rape of Shavi.” Bookbird 36.1 (1998): 12-16. Ure Mezu, Rose. Buchi Emecheta's "The Bride Price" and "The Slave Girl": A Schizoanalytic Perspective .Van Judith Alan. “Sitting on a Man: Colonialism and the Last Political Institutions of Igbo Women.” and The Joys of Motherhood. PMLA 105.1(1990): 83-97.