In the light of these arguments, this article aims to analyse Wole Soyinka’s play, The Lion and the Jewel, with reference to Third World feminism, which is a harsh protest against the colonial political design on the underdeveloped countries. Colonization has resulted in assimilation of the people in the Third World countries while the black patriarchal system has found a new definition through whitish way of life women have suffered from both colonialism and the new patriarchal system, which is why they have been overwhelmed twice as much as the white middle class women in Europe and in the USA. Third World countries have always been attractive for the Europeans and for the Americans since there are abundant resources to be exploited, which have contributed to the welfare of the First World countries.
However, women in the Third World countries are overwhelmed both by these components and by the white way of the patriarchal system, which is established by the white colonizers and practiced by the black people in these countries. It would not be right to underestimate the discrimination which women are exposed to in the First World countries, because they are also ill-treated by the system through double standards which are inclusive of womanhood, working conditions, body and sexuality, motherhood, wifehood, and so on. While the first wave and second wave feminism types are totally Eurocentric and are concerned with the emancipation of the white middle class women in Europe and in the USA, the third wave feminism has based its arguments on the emancipation of the women in the Third World countries since they are abused twice as much as those in the First World countries by the political and patriarchal system, which, apparently, is an unstraightforward definition of double colonization. Feminism, as a social and political phenomenon, has been controversial in all terms, for there are various types of it and each type is associated with a certain group of people, culture, or society.
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