Paper short abstract:

Taboos have cultural and religious impediments on the ideological subjectivity of the African Tiv woman. This study is a juxtaposition of the literary, using Adimora-Ezeigbo's Children of the Eagle, and character compromise to reimagine a religio-cultural renaissance for the African Tiv woman.

Paper long abstract:

Cultural and religious nuggets have generational impediments on the ideological limits of Africans. In Tiv cosmology, the stereotypical representations of women are mostly grounded on the prevalence of religious subjectivities. While taboos exist in perpetuity vis-à-vis Western religious trends, this study reimagines how such taboos and stereotypes reflect in the lives of Africans at home or in diaspora. Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's representation of the ideological exigences of the diasporic African is torn between compromise or conformity. This juxtaposition is necessary as it strengthens the argument of this paper, that most religious subjectivities especially taboos impeding the growth of the African woman are sexist and do not apply to those in Diaspora. This paper explicates ways of eliminating genderisation through eradication of harmful and unhelpful tabooic practices.

Keywords: Religious subjectivities, Africans in Diaspora, Tiv Cosmology,