MODERN FEMINIST CONCERNS
The play is a feminist critique of a masculinist culture, at a time when feminism as a theme was still unpopular and rare among male playwrights in Africa. Kargbo deals with wife beating, male prejudice against female leadership, the problems of loveless marriages, and the tendency to measure masculine
virility and sexual dominance against female oppression and sexual dominance. It also considers relations between husbands and wives, women forced into loveless mariages, brutal husbands, women forced into stereotypical roles, and the right of women to determine whether their femininity should consist solely in their ability to bear children.