EKPOMA REVIEW

This essay re?ects on Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity. In this work, Beauvoir examines the degrading human condition and shows how women can truly be free from oppression. She argues that women are subject like men; hence should not be reduced to immanence (object) at home, work, and society at large. This paper ?nds her idea thought-provoking in liberating women in Africa from political marginalization and domestic oppression. However, it rejects Beauvoir's supposition that it is only via labour that women's oppression can be resolved; while defending her existential conversion as a fundamental ideology for tackling women's oppression in Africa.

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