Ochendo: An African Journal of Innovative Studies

The issue of gender and human rights is one of the most commonly talked about issues in the modern world, and the literary field in particular. In literature, there has always been literary discourse surrounding this issue with the use of several literary texts. However, there has been none to discuss gender, human rights, and the global future using Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Roses and Bullets as a reference point. In this paper, there'll be an exploration of the matter of gender, human rights, and the global future, especially on the African continent, using Roses and Bullets as a reference point. The situation of these issues in Africa would be represented, and also the way they can be explored. In Roses and Bullets, the tragic events of the Nigerian Civil War are chronicled, and we witness the lives of characters who go through several levels of human rights abuses and gender-based violence. At the end, there'll be full and well-done research on the subject matter of this paper, and proper study and analysis of the text

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