This document provides information about female characters in four African literary works: - Alu and Desala are traditional and materialistic women characters respectively in Wole Soyinka's play "The Swamp Dweller". - Mumbi is a beloved village woman who makes mistakes with Karanja in Ngugi Wa Thiongo's "Grain of Wheat". - The unnamed "Barbarian Girl" is a strong yet silent tortured character in J.M. Coetzee's "Waiting for the Barbarians". - Ekwefi and Ojiugo are Okonkwo's second and third wives in Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart".