Several challenges that African-American women face can be portrayed in Ama Ata Aidoo’s novel: Changes: A Love Story. The biggest challenge for modern and traditional African-American women is the struggle to balance their lives. Aidoo illustrates Esi’s challenge of balancing her life in a modern fashion; Esi deals with sexism in the workplace resulting in working below her qualifications, and also how she has experienced both a monogamous and polygynous marriage, but neither of them satisfied her. On the other hand, Opokuya portrays a more traditional challenge in balancing her life, but she is also struggling to transition into modern aspects like acquiring her own property. The different circumstances to these women’s lives are social challenges,
