Buchi Emecheta’s work, The Joys of Motherhood, is opposite to the title. In this novel, no joy makes the mother happy except for distraction in Africa. In the Ibo tradition, marriage is an essential ritual for girls and boys. Marriage is a source of Joy for men, but it is the opposite for women. After marriage, people ask women to bear the child. A woman must face many unnecessary questions and complexities if she takes to conceive. Sometimes, she is tagged as barren. Man is free to enjoy life. Nobody dares impose a single question on man to ask about fatherhood. All questions go to women. Man deserts his wife if she cannot bear a child, and man can remarry quickly to grow a family tree. Children are the form of gods in Ibo society. The child is the symbol of happiness, especially the male child. The birth of a child is celebrated with great pomp. Children are considered helpers while the parents grow old. ‘Joys of Motherhood’ represents this reality of life. Women find nothing in the process of motherhood. Nnu-ego is the daughter of Agbadi. Her father gets her married to Amatokwu. However, Nnu-ego fails to conceive. People blamed her as barren and juiceless. So Amatokwu is free to hold the second wife, and Nnu-Ego returns to Agbadi. Nnu-ego re-marries Nnaife Owulum. She hates him on the first night, but he finds the right to have a sexual relationship with her. He brutally raped her at night, but she could do nothing. She soon realizes she is blessed with a child, and Nnaife impregnates her. After birthing, the child cannot survive long. Finally, she is proud of seven children’s mothers (three boys and four girls). But at last, she feels alienated and misses her children. Her children do not care and never return to her. Her whole life was shattered in poverty and the cradle of children. No child has time for her, so she is robbed by her children. Nnu-ego expresses her grief through these words: “God, when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a full human being, not anybody's appendage? I was born alone, and I shall die alone. What have I gained from all this? And if I am lucky enough to die in peace.” [1] Successfully, Emecheta picturizes a reality of her contemporary social tradition where motherhood is a symbol of completeness; if married women want a prestigious place or right from their husband, they must be a mother. The lack of a child is a symbol of inadequateness. She never deserves proper respect from her husband or society. In traditional Nigerian Ibo society, women are only trained and confined to grow a family tree. Tradition is a critical web where the survival of women is difficult. No one can be safe from this crucial tradition. It includes a lot of myths, theories, assumptions, affairs, and practices that are to obey without arguing. Nigerian society's rules are the same. Modernity never affects the condition of women. It always dominates women under the shackles of tradition and culture. Emecheta's novels are remarkable evidence of woman’s suffering, problems, and sacrifices. In the Joys of motherhood, Emecheta picturizes her journey from childhood to motherhood. She feels or rejoices the pride of the dearest daughter of Agbadi. Her first husband, Amatokwu, abuses and blames her for not becoming a mother. Gradually, he behaves like an animal to Nnu-ego. One day he remarries, and she returns to Ibuza. Her father, Agbadi, welcomed her. After many years, she remarries Nnaife. She does not accept Nnaife's physical appearance. But she to think that she would get the tag of motherhood by impregnation Emecheta describes how the people expect a woman to be a mother and good wife, sound woman for the society, family, and community. This story focuses on how crucial it is to maintain their people's values. Nnu-Ego also wants to live up to her father's standards by becoming a good wife and mother. A good wife means to obey her husband's command without saying anything. Agbadi says: “Let her go, she is as barren as a desert.” [2] The motive of Ibo males is to suppress their wives using conjugal rights. Buchi Emecheta’s title Joy of motherhood is also a line of Efuru. Both have the same similarity, just the traditional practices of motherhood. Motherhood is just like a boon for conventional Ibo people. But gradually, this boon transforms into curses for the mother. The Joy of motherhood can understand this. Nnu-Ego is pregnant with her first child, but he cannot survive long. Then, she becomes the mother of twin daughters. In this way, she gives birth to seven healthy children: three sons and four daughters. She is on cloud nine after getting the tag of seven children’s mothers. But very soon, she notices that she has engrossed in raising children and doing another homely chorus. Day by day, she feels that she is falling into the pit. But she can do nothing to become a puppet. Her life moves around her children. She thinks about her children's growth and development, but the title of motherhood eats her gradually, which she never sees it. After being a mother, she thinks that she will be prosperous in her coming age because she is a mother of seven children, but motherhood becomes a silent worm that, like a termite, her body and soul. Katherine Frank expresses her view on the Joy of Motherhood, “The complete futility of motherhood that we find in the joy of the motherhood is the most heretical and radical aspect of Emecheta’s vision of the African women."[3]