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Ogunyemi offers the first close look at eight Nigerian women writers and a new vernacular theory based on their work, tracing a literary tradition centered on children and community, and countering prevailing "masculinist" theories of black literature in a powerful narrative of the Nigerian world.

Women, especially leaders, holding tête-à-têtes 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 part...

Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi, professor of literature and the founding chair of global studies, is currently faculty emerita, Sarah Lawrence College. Her publications include Juju Fission: Women¿s Alternative Fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the Oases In-between and Africa Wo/Man Palava: The Nigerian Novel by Women. ¿Tuzyline Jita Allan teaches at Baruch College, City University of New York. She is the author of the award-winning book ...