ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the attitudes that consider women as means to society’s ends, and how these attitudes often morph into outright objectification of African women. Arguing from the standpoint that the dignity of woman consists in the simple fact that only she has control of her body, this chapter puts the works of contemporary generation of African writers such as Adeyemi Adebayo’s Stay with Me in conversation with those of the earlier generation such as Buchi Emecheta (The Joys of Motherhood), Mariama Ba (So Long a Letter). The concluding part of this chapter explores the phenomenon of sex-trafficking.
