TY - BOOK AU - Nduwayo,Jean Marie AU - Njeng,Eric Sipyinyu ED - University of Burundi TI - The woman in William Shakespeare's othello and Ola Rotimi's our husband has gone mad again PY - 2015/// CY - Bujumbura PB - University of Burundi, Institute for Applied Pedagogy, English-Kirundi Department KW - KW - BI-BuBU KW - Shakespeare (William)."Othello" KW - Femme (Thème) KW - Rotimi (Ola)."Our husband has gone mad again" KW - Mémoire N2 - Résumé, This work entitled "The Woman in William Shakespeare's Othello and Ola Rotimi's Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again" examines and exposes the status for women in a patriarchal society. It aims at showing women's strategies to assert themselves over men. Despite the deep-rooted patriarchal tradition operative in their respective works, this study intends then to show the progressive capacity of a woman manifested as a human being able to affirm her personalty by using her implicit power. Written against the background of feminist approach, this work seeks to show men's gnorance of women's power which leads to female gender denigraton. It also breaks the taboo by presenting a woman who defeats her husband in a political campaign ER -