Africa Wo/Man Palava: The Nigerian Novel by Women Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Firing Can(n)ons: Salvos by African Women Writers	1
1	An Excursion into Woman's (S)(p)ace	17
	The Myths of Osun and Odu: Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Secrets of Verbal Authority	21
	The Mammywata Myth as Gendered Insurance	29
	Chi/Ori, or, The Mother Within	35
	Omunwa/Iyalode, or, The Mother Without, or, The Daughter-of-the-Soil	45
	The Ogbanje/Abiku Complex: Mother as Jinxed Care Giver	61
	A Taste of Women in Nigeria: The Sweet Mother, The Bitter Wife, The Sour Widow, The Salt of the Earth	74
2	(En)gender(ing) Discourse: Palaver-Palava and African Womanism	93
	Palavering: Bones of Contention	93
	African Womanist Ideology	106
3	Flora Nwapa: Genesis and Matrix	131
	Strategies in the Palaver	131
	Uhamiri and the Secrets of the Ugwuta Homestead	139
	Efuru: In Search of the Mother	145
	Twice-Told Tales: Idu Revisited	157
	Never Again: The War to End All Wars	164
	One Is Enough: Bitter Wife, Sweet Mother	169
	Women Are Different: Stasis	174
	Nwapa's Political Acuity: "A Woman Protects a Man" - Silently	180
4	Adaora Lily Ulasi: Juju Fiction	183
	The Magic of Confusion: A Long (Overdue) Introduction	183
	Many Thing You No Understand: The Curse of Ignorance	197
	Many Thing Begin for Change: For Better, For Worse	202
	The Night Harry Died: Resurrection and the Arts of Divination	206
	Who Is Jonah?: From the Belly of the Fish	209
	The Man from Sagamu: Divine Mediation	213
	"Ise," Say I - To That Prayer of Ulasi's	218
5	Buchi Emecheta: The Been-to (Bintu) Novel	220
	The Been-to (Dis)Advantage	220
	In the Ditch: But Conditions Are looking Up	234
	Second-Class Citizen: First-Rate Woman	237
	The Bride Price: What Price Freedom?	244
	The Slave Girl: Slave Traffickers and Vernacular Ethics	248
	The Joys of Motherhood and the Throes of Fatherhood	254
	Destination Biafra: Humpty-Dumpty and Daughters-of-the-Soil	262
	Double Yoke: Double Yolk and Yokefellows	267
	The Family: Uncovered Secrets	270
	Kehinde: Bintu and the Search for a Home	278
6	Fakunle, Okoye, Alkali, Eno Obong, Bedford: Siddon Look	284
	Sweet Mothers: The Present Generation	284
	Funmilayo Fakunle: Opening the Secrets in the Calabash	293
	Ifeoma Okoye: Maladies, Malaise, and National Recovery	302
	Zaynab Alkali: Salts and Preservation	307
	Eno Obong: Mammywata to the Rescue	313
	Simi Bedford: Home as Exile and Exile as Home	321
	Holding Fire: For Home and Country	332
	Works Cited	335
	Index	349