{"id":2325,"date":"2026-01-04T16:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:46:14","slug":"amma-darkos-the-housemaid-or-the-decline-of-man-as-a-stakeholder-of-african-culture-and-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/?p=2325","title":{"rendered":"AMMA DARKO&rsquo;S THE HOUSEMAID OR THE DECLINE OF MAN AS A STAKEHOLDER OF AFRICAN CULTURE AND TRADITION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">L\u2019objectif de cet article est de montrer l\u2019importance du respect des valeurs africaines par l\u2019Africain. En effet, l\u2019homme et la femme, pendant les rites initiatiques, b\u00e9n\u00e9ficient d\u2019enseignements diff\u00e9rents et chacun selon son sexe. Pendant que les jeunes gens apprennent comment devenir des hommes accomplis, les jeunes filles sont initi\u00e9es aux t\u00e2ches m\u00e9nag\u00e8res et au respect de leur futur mari. On attend donc de chaque individu une ligne de conduite selon son sexe. C\u2019est pourquoi quand l\u2019on constate l\u2019inversement des valeurs ou des r\u00f4les, on s\u2019interroge sur le bon fonctionnement de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 africaine. C\u2019est effectivement ce que l\u2019\u0153uvre The Housemaid d\u2019Amma Darko nous d\u00e9montre. Dans celle-ci, les femmes ont pris la place de l\u2019homme et vice-versa. Cette situation extraordinaire, nous pousse \u00e0 nous poser un certain nombre de questions. Pour mener \u00e0 bien notre recherche, nous avons convoqu\u00e9 la sociocritique de Pierre Zima.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Mots-cl\u00e9s : Crise des valeurs- esth\u00e9tique du choc\u2013 femme \u2013 homme\u2013 valeurs africaine<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Abstract<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The aim of this study is to show the importance of respect for <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">African values by Africans. Indeed, men and women, during initiation rites, receive different teachings and depending on their sex. While young men learn how to become accomplished men, young women are taught household chores and how to respect their future husband. Each individual is therefore expected to follow a different line of conduct according to his or her sex. This is why, when we see the reversal of values or roles, we wonder about the proper functioning of African society. This is what Amma Darko&rsquo;s The Housemaid shows us. In it, women have taken the place of men and vice versa. This extraordinary situation prompts us to raise a number of questions. To carry out our research, we turned to Pierre Zima&rsquo;s sociocriticism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Keywords: Crisis of values &#8211; aesthetics of shock &#8211; woman -African values-man<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R\u00e9sum\u00e9 L\u2019objectif de cet article est de montrer l\u2019importance du respect des valeurs africaines par l\u2019Africain. En effet, l\u2019homme et la femme, pendant les rites initiatiques, b\u00e9n\u00e9ficient d\u2019enseignements diff\u00e9rents et chacun selon son sexe. Pendant que les jeunes gens apprennent comment devenir des hommes accomplis, les jeunes filles sont initi\u00e9es aux t\u00e2ches m\u00e9nag\u00e8res et au [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-r"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}