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Women, especially leaders, holding t DEGREESete-a-t DEGREEStes with men to address political impasses have been recognized as shrewd, double headed, or witchlike distinctions that link them with juju or extraordinary, survivalist powers. Juju Fission: Women's Alternative Fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the Oases In-Between is a theoretical and analytical book on African women writers that focuses on seven representative novels from different parts of Africa: Bessie Head's Maru (South Africa/Bots El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero (Egypt); Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy; or Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint and Changes (Ghana); Assia Djebar's A Sister to Scheherazade (Algeria); Calixthe Beyala's The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me (Cameroon); and Yvonne Vera's Nehanda (Zimbabwe). In her analysis, Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi demonstrates how women are viewed and how they operate in critical times. Ogunyemi explains how the heritage is passed on, in spite of dire situations emanating from colonialism, postcolonialism, ethnicism, sexism, and grinding poverty. An important contribution to many fields, Juju Fission is excellent background material for courses on African studies, women's studies, African Diaspora studies, black studies, global studies, and general literature studies.
"Africa Wo/Man Palava" offers the first close look at eight
Nigerian women writers and proposes a new vernacular theory based
on their work. Flora Nwapa, Adaora Lily Ulasi, Buchi Emecheta,
Funmilayo Fakunle, Ifeoma Okoye, Zaynab Alkali, Eno Obong, and Simi
Bedford are the writers Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi considers.
African womanism, an emerging model of female discourse, is at the
heart of their writing. In their work, female resistance shifts
from the idea of "palava," or trouble, to a focus on consensus,
compromise, and cooperation; it tackles sexism, totalitarianism,
and ethnic prejudice. Such inclusiveness, Ogunyemi shows, stems
from an emphasis on motherhood, acknowledging that everyone is a
mother's child, capable of creating "palava" and generating a
compromise.
In 2002, at the annual Zimbabwe International Book Fair, twelve
literary books by African women were included for the first time in
the category of "Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century."
This was an important but belated affirmation of women writers on
the continent and a first step toward establishing a recognized
canon of African women's literature.
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