This paper explored how women are silenced in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. It drew on Parpart’s (Rethinking silence, gender and power in insecure sites: Implications for feminist security studies in a postcolonial world. Review of International Studies, 46(3), 315–324. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026021051900041X) insight that a person who is silenced, who cannot say what is on their mind or speak out against injustice, can quite rightly be seen as lacking agency. Our critical reception of the works of Darko and Achebe revealed that women, or the female characters have been built, programmed and oriented with weakness, zero authority and playing second fiddle to their male counterparts. We argued that the nature of the silencing of the women: (1) depicted the various instances of women’s subjugation, subordination, submission, and compliance, amongst other things, in male dominated traditional societies, (2) encapsulated the hegemonic issues in the patriarchal society feminist scholars vehemently write against, and (3) demonstrated that silence is a marker for empty speech, the unsaid, or keeping something to the self. The paper is a contribution to further studies on gender roles and the discourse on gendered power imbalances.

本文探讨了在 Amma Darko 的Beyond the Horizo ​​n 和 Chinua Achebe 的Things Fall Apart中女性是如何被沉默的。它借鉴了 Parpart 的（重新思考不安全场所中的沉默、性别和权力：对后殖民世界中女权主义安全研究的影响。国际研究回顾, 46(3), 315–324。https://doi.org/10.1017/S026021051900041X）洞察力，一个沉默的人，不能说出他们的想法或反对不公正的人，可以完全正确地被视为缺乏代理。我们对 Darko 和 Achebe 作品的批判性接受表明，女性或女性角色是在弱点、零权威和男性同行中扮演次要角色的弱点构建、编程和定位的。我们认为，女性沉默的性质：（1）描绘了在男性主导的传统社会中女性征服、从属、服从和顺从等各种情况，（2）概括了父权制中的霸权问题。社会女权主义学者强烈反对，并且（3）证明沉默是空洞言论的标志，未说，或对自己有所保留。本文是对进一步研究性别角色和关于性别权力失衡的论述的贡献。