This paper examines the predicament of infertility and how women often bear the blame for it in patriarchal African societies. The study explores the themes of womanhood and infertility in modern African novels, focusing on Asare Konadu‟s A Woman in Her Prime and Ifeoma Okoye‟s Behind the Clouds. In these novels, Konadu and Okoye address various cultural pressures within marriage that are prevalent among Black women in many African communities. The paper discusses the dilemmas, challenges and unbearable pain faced by women who are frequently blamed for infertility in marriage, without consideration of the fact that medical causes of infertility are non-discriminatory. The study is anchored in womanism as its theoretical framework, an offshoot of feminist theory, which advocates for the removal of legal and social restrictions on women to achieve equality between the sexes in both private and public life. The research concludes that although African women‟s identities are often tied to motherhood, they are unjustly subjected to harassment and dehumanization due to the sterility of their male counterparts.