Female Images and Voices in Kanakana Yvonne Ladzani's Selected Poetry

This paper reflects on Kanakana Yvonne Ladzani's use of poetry to vanguard women's images and voices. The paper further considers how, apart from articulating the significance of her role as a poet, Ladzani also comments authoritatively on how women are perceived in society. The paper employed the qualitative approach and purposively selected five poems from Ladzani's three poetry anthologies. Undergirded by the theory of feminism, the analysis appreciated Ladzani's literary vision of women empowerment. In the analysis of the selected poems, it was argued that Ladzani prefers positive female portraitures over negative ones. It was also argued that Ladzani aims to prod women to move from the margins to the centre of gender discourse through her poetry. In its conclusion, the paper appreciated Ladzani's poetry as an essential mode of agency through which the Vhaven?a women may make their voices heard in the contemporary space.