Women, Human Right and Security Challenges: Female Playwrights and Visions

Abstract

Nigeria is besieged by insecurity challenges which manifest through insurgencies, kidnappings, and activities of the Fulani Herdsmen and their damaging consequences. Equally disastrous is the attack on women‟s right which threaten and destroy their destinies behind closed doors in hidden places in Nigeria. This paper is a clamour against the breach of human right and other security challenges which women suffer because they are women and man is indifferent and interested in exercising of power and authority over them with impunity. The paper persists on a feminist liberationist movement to free every woman from the clutches of archaic observances, traditional taboos, and rape. Through her Broken Calabash Tess Onwueme exposes and condemns „Idegbe‟ cultural practices in Ogwashiukwu while Julie Okoh employs Closed Doors to nip in the bud the harsh and disgusted activities which women go through to douse the anger of the unborn who are aborted or adopted by strangers indiscriminately while their mothers wail in agony. The paper in its analysis adheres to African feminist concepts.