This essay focuses on how gender is reflected in Wole Soyinka’s Childe Internationale. Gender refers to “the many aspects of human affairs concerned with the experience of being male or female in a particular culture.” That men have penises and women do not, that women bear children and men do not, are biological facts, which have no determinate meaning in themselves but are invested with various symbolic meanings by different cultures. The inequality of the sexes is neither a biological given nor a divine mandate, but a cultural construct, and therefore a proper subject of study for any humanistic discipline. It is generally true that gender is constructed ire patriarchy to serve the interests of male supremacy. Radical feminists argue that the construction of gender is grounded in male attempts to control female sexuality. The meaning of gender in patriarchal ideology is not simply “difference” but … division, oppression, inequality, interiorized inferiority for women; its ideology is inscribed in discourse—in our ways of talking and even writing—and it is produced in cultural practice.