Sola Sobowale is Mother

Sola Sobowale is Mother

“O, mother, mother! What have you done?” – Richard III  What came first: mothers or the varying archetypes of mothers in fiction? If fiction and reality symbiotically inform each other, then which ultimately creates the other? The question shall remain unanswerable, but the many archetypes of mothers and motherhood have long fascinated storytellers and audiences alike —the forlorn Mama in Buchi Emecheta’s “The Joys of Motherhood”, the despicable…