The Dilemma of Western Education in Aidoou27s Changes: A Love Story, Nayloru27s The Women of Brewster Place, and Morrisonu27s Beloved

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In his article u22The Dilemma of Western Education in Aidoou27s Changes: A Love Story, Nayloru27s The Women of Brewster Place, and Morrisonu27s Belovedu22 Solomon Omatsola Azumurana examines the problematics of Western education with regard to Black Africans and African Americans through the creative lens of three prose fictions written by African and African American women. While Ama Ata Aidoo is a West African writer from Ghana, Gloria Naylor and Toni Morrison are African American writers. Azumurana argues that Western education poses issues whether for African Americans of Black Africans and whether educated and literate or not, there is an accompanying negative complex for the African and African American characters in the said novels.Key Words: Western Education, African, African American, characters