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Item Silence and Voice in Buchi Emecheta’s The Slave Girl (1977) and Maissa Bey’s Nulle autre voix (2018)(Mouloud Mammeri University, 2022) Metahri Lynda; Messaoudi AzizaThis research paper compares and studies the themes and characters in Buchi Emecheta’s The Slave Girl (1977) and Maïssa Bey’s Nulle autre voix (2018). It shows how the two authors analyzed the position of African women relying on Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984), a book written by the African American author and feminist activist bell hooks. This theory allows us better understand the unequal and oppressive gender relation treated in the two literary works. In this analysis, we found that despite the difference of the two works eras, they shared the same issues of oppression, silence and resistance. The two authors, in their writings, described the oppression of women and how they are dominated by men in the African patriarchal society. They also depicted how these women resisted and sought independence. In both novels, the authors described women’s positions and their freedom desire in their societies. In our study, we examined women’s silence and voice and concluded that Emecheta and Bey used their characters’ voice to depict their suffering and then showed their resistance against oppression.