In Besi Heads short story "Life" the main character is murdered by her husband. He gets sentenced by a white judge to only a few years in prison. In Heads short story "The Collector of Treasures," the protagonist, Dikeledi, murders her husband and is sentenced to life prison. By putting these two short stories into their historical context to be analyzed, it would be so clear that there are certain issues that has been raised during the events of these stories like; sexism, representation of women, the new stereotypical images that has been created by the colonizers in the mind of many African men. I will discuss these issues in relation to these short stories and Amina Mama's essay.
Although the two characters have been committed the same crime which was taken a human life; they didn't have the same punishment. For me, I think the judgment was based on sexism which made it unfair judgment. It's true that men and women are physically, emotionally, and mentally different and each one has his own way to see things so they can't have the same punishment even if they committed the same crime.…
