Abstract In African, women and the environment are seen from the sanctity of motherhood through the earth as a sustainable mother. Unruly exploitation of the environment is encouraged by patriarchal capitalism and the domination of the female gender including the environment. This is evident in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria since the discovery of oil in the region. Yet, in contemporary Nigerian literature, ecological writings are dominated by postcolonial eco-critique of socio-economic and political marginalization of the Niger Delta people. Critical attention is focused on the oil wealth of the region but not much attention is given to the devastating condition of women whom depend on farming and fishing to provide for themselves and their children. Using Greta Gaard’s integral ecofeminism and life interconnections, this paper investigates environmental pollution and implications on women and other life forms in Tanure Ojaide’s The Tale of the Harmattan and The Questioner.
Abonyi et al. (Thu,) studied this question.