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Book SynopsisWomen, 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 parts of Africa: Bessie Head's
Maru (South Africa/Botswana); Nawal 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 herit
