1 Deification of Women and Female Imaging: A Feminist Reading of Femi Osofisan's Plays AJIDAHUN, Clement Olujide, PhD Professor, Department of English Studies Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria Abstract This paper is a critical discourse on the deification of women and female imaging in Femi Osofisan's drama. The paper examines the portrayal of women as agents of change and social transformation in Femi Osofisan's plays. It also discusses gender discrimination and the various prejudices and injustices suffered by women in society as occasioned by religious, cultural and patriarchal factors and their exhibitions in literary works. The theoretical framework of the paper is based on feminism from the African perspective and its impact on engendering gender balancing in society. A critical discussion of Femi Osofisan's plays, where women are depicted as heroes, combative, revolutionary, and as change agents, is undertaken. Some of the plays discussed include Morountodun , The Chattering and the Song , Fires Burn and Die Hard, Red is the Freedom Road , Altine's Wrath and others. The paper condemns all forms of prejudice against women as advocated by the playwright and campaigns that women be allowed to play complementary roles with men in the social transformation process of society in line with the ideology of African feminism. Finally, the paper advocates that literature should be deployed as a potent platform for countenancing the inalienable rights of women and also for fighting against all forms of discrimination and injustice against women in society. UNIUYO Journal of HumaniƟes (UUJH) Vol. 25, N0. 1, May 2021