Nowadays, most African women ignore African values and tightly stick to what they learn from western people under the cover of education, emancipation and equality. So, they think that the only role devoted to women in Africa is childbirth. Hence the necessity to carry out this study in order to reveal the traditional roles of African women and the values given to them in Africa. African women will completely forget about their roles and start acting like western women unless something is done so that they should fully play the roles assigned to them. The phenomenological and descriptive approaches are the methodological approaches used in this paper. The literary theories applied to this research work are the feminist criticism which aims at valorising women’s image on the on hand, and the Marxist criticism which is based on class struggle and focuses on power and money in works of literature on the other hand. The study has found that women play an important role in traditional African societies and that the stereotypes which affect them need to be eradicated. The focus of this research work is limited to a critical appraisal of the novel under study with illustrations. The paper recommends and concludes that African women have important traditional roles and that they should play these roles efficiently for the welfare of their families and of society at large.