Africa Wo/Man Palava

Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
Acknowledgments
Firing Can(n)ons: Salvos by African Women Writers
1: An Excursion into Woman's (S)(p)ace
The Myths of Osun and Odu: Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Secrets of
Verbal Authority
The Mammywata Myth as Gendered Insurance
Chi/Ori, or, The Mother Within
Omunwa/Iyalode, or, The Mother Without, or, The Daughter-of-the-Soil
The Ogbanje/Abiku Complex: Mother as Jinxed Care Giver
A Taste of Women in Nigeria: The Sweet Mother, The Bitter Wife, The Sour
Widow, The Salt of the Earth
2: (En)gender(ing) Discourse: Palaver-Palava and African Womanism
Palavering: Bones of Contention
African Womanist Ideology
3: Flora Nwapa: Genesis and Matrix
Strategies in the Palaver
Uhamiri and the Secrets of the Ugwuta Homestead
Efuru: In Search of the Mother
Twice-Told Tales: Idu Revisited
Never Again: The War to End All Wars
One Is Enough: Bitter Wife, Sweet Mother
Women Are Different: Stasis
Nwapa's Political Acuity: "A Woman Protects a Man"—Silently
4: Adaora Lily Ulasi: Juju Fiction
The Magic of Confusion: A Long (Overdue) Introduction
Many Thing You No Understand: The Curse of Ignorance
Many Thing Begin for Change: For Better, For Worse
The Night Harry Died: Resurrection and the Arts of Divination
Who Is Jonah?: From the Belly of the Fish
The Man from Sagamu: Divine Mediation
"Ise," Say I—To That Prayer of Ulasi's
5: Buchi Emecheta: The Been-to (Bintu) Novel
The Been-to (Dis)Advantage
In the Ditch: But Conditions Are looking Up
Second-Class Citizen: First-Rate Woman
The Bride Price: What Price Freedom?
The Slave Girl: Slave Traffickers and Vernacular Ethics
The Joys of Motherhood and the Throes of Fatherhood
Destination Biafra: Humpty-Dumpty and Daughters-of-the-Soil
Double Yoke: Double Yolk and Yokefellows
The Family: Uncovered Secrets
Kehinde: Bintu and the Search for a Home
6: Fakunle, Okoye, Alkali, Eno Obong, Bedford: Siddon Look
Sweet Mothers: The Present Generation
Funmilayo Fakunle: Opening the Secrets in the Calabash
Ifeoma Okoye: Maladies, Malaise, and National Recovery
Zaynab Alkali: Salts and Preservation
Eno Obong: Mammywata to the Rescue
Simi Bedford: Home as Exile and Exile as Home
Holding Fire: For Home and Country
Works Cited
Index