Ajé in Yorubaland
Ajé across the continent and in the Itànkálé
Word becoming flesh and text in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and T. Obinkaram Echewa's I saw the sky catch fire
Initiations into the self, the conjured space of creation, and prophetic utterance in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa and Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, cypress & indigo
Un/complementary complements : gender, power, and Ajé
The relativity of negativity
The womb of life is a wicked bag : cycles of power, passion, and pain in the mother-daughter Ajé relationship
Twinning across the ocean : the neo-political Ajé of Ben Okri's Madame Koto and Mary Monroe's Mama Ruby.