Description

Nneora: an African Doll's House,... is a study of the virtues of womanhood. Nneora, literally translated as "mother of all", is a symbolic name given to the eponymous heroine which marks her out as an embodiment of all that is virtuous in the quintessential woman. Nneora is presented as an ideal wife-submissive without being slavish, assertive without being pugnacious. Thus, in the end, when she discovers her virtues being called into question by her husband, she takes the honourable way out... Once again, Utoh appears to be calling on women not to forget their feminine virtues, but to see themselves as mothers of the world.