This paper is intended to demonstrate the representation of the girl-child and her place in a Post-Colonial African poverty-stricken family as manifested in three distinct African novels, namely: Ngugi Wa Thiongo and Ngugi Wa Miri's I Will Marry When I Want, Efua T. Sutherland's The Marriage of Anansewa and Sambene Ousmane's Xala. The discussion reveals unequivocally that in African poor homes the female child is more or less perceived as the parents' property that can freely be merchandized usually for the benefit of the entire family. In such circumstances, the unfortunate female child hardly has any choice in her own marriage.
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