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Adah's Second-Class Citizen
In Second-Class Citizen, Adah’s maternal role rejects stereotypes in Post-War Britain. This is portrayed in chapter four, when Adah dismisses the cultural expectations upheld by the Igbo community: ‘Everybody expected Adah to do the same. It came as a big surprise, therefore, when they realised that she was not making any attempt to look for a foster-mother. And now Francis told her that he was not going to look after her children for her anymore.’ Black migrant women were labelled as ‘inadequate mothers’ due to the inevitability of having to work long hours and provide for their family. Adah learns to struggle with domestic life alongside financing her husband’s lifestyle and education also. The frustrations she experiences within her life,
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