In These Novels by African Women, Coming of Age Is Collective

The following coming-of-age novels by African women authors are shaped by an understanding of the deep and complex relationships between women. In these works, the individual path of the traditional bildungsroman narrator is transformed into a dual path involving two (or more) young women at the cusp of self-realization. Kinship and sisterhood mean something bigger than just finding comfort in the other; it means that the difficulties of life are faced not by one individual alone, but rather by the collective. 

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