Introduction : a breath of fresh air / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Gay Wilentz -- Reading the critical writer / Gay Wilentz -- Unwelcome pals and decorative slaves or glimpses of women as writers and characters in contemporary African literature / Ama Ata Aidoo -- Slavery in the diaspora consciousness : Ama Ata Aidoo's conversations / Angeletta K.M. Gourdine -- Ama Ata Aidoo and the African diaspora : things "all good men and women try to forget, " but I will not let them / Mildred A. Hill-Lubin -- Diasporic ruptures and (re)membering history : Africa as home and exile in Anowa and The dilemma of a ghost / Maureen N. Eke -- Politics of exile : reflections of a black-eyed squint in Our sister Killjoy / Gay Wilentz -- Transnationality and its critique : narrative tropes of "borderland" in Our sister Killjoy / Haiping Yan -- Narrative turns in Ama Ata Aidoo's No sweetness here / Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang -- Inverting the institutions : Ama Ata Aidoo's No sweetness here and deconstructive theory / Linda Strong-Leek -- Ama Ata Aidoo : the development of a woman's voice / Arlene A. Elder -- Of those who went before / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Risk of (re)membering my name : reading Lucy and Our sister Killjoy as travel narratives / Paula Morgan -- Dilemma of a ghost : literature and the power of myth / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo -- Bird of the wayside : from An angry letter...to The girl who can / Vincent Okpoti Odamtten -- Language of endurance in the short stories of Ama Ata Aidoo / Peter Wilfred Stine -- African woman's domain : demarcating political space in Nwapa, Sutherland and Aidoo / Gay Wilentz

Flabberwhelmed or turning history on its head? : the postcolonial woman-as-subject in Aidoo's Changes, a love story / Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi -- "Strange as it may seem" : African feminism in two novels by Ama Ata Aidoo / Sally McWilliams -- Free but lost : variations in the militant's song / Pauline Onwubiko Uwakweh -- Sexual politics and phallocentric gaze in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes, a love story / Miriam C. Gyimah -- Multifaceted Aidoo : ideologue, scholar, writer, and woman / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo -- Facing the millenium : an interview with Ama Ata Aidoo / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo -- Afterword : interviewing and transcribing a writer-oral artist / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo.