title: Double Yoke
author:  Buchi Emecheta 
description: Emecheta's prose has a shimmer of originality, of English being re-mvented.... Issues of survival lie inherent in her material and give her tales weight.
zlib_text: Double Yoke
  a novel by
  BUCHI EMECHETA
  
  Double Yoke
  by Buchi Emecheta
  $12.95
  Set on
  the campus
  of a Nigerian university,
  Double Yoke
  is the story of two young under-
  graduates, Ete Kamba and Nko, who confront
  the conflicting demands of tradition and mo-
  dernity. Nko, as a woman, must overcome the
  resistance of those who feel that women need
  not be educated, and should instead lose their
  identity in traditional marriage. She must also
  contend with unscrupulous professors, who
  would wish to take advantage of her tenuous role
  as a woman in a male-dominated environment.
  Ete Kamba's love for Nko is severely tested as he
  is himself locked into traditional ways; exactly
  those from which Nko
  is attempting to break
  free. Buchi Emcheta writes with candor and
  incisiveness on the status of women and the
  options they face in emerging African nations.
  The double yoke of the
  title derives from the
  twin considerations of modernity and tradition,
  which Nigerians must seek to reconcile in their
  daily pro