Juju Fission: Women's Alternative Fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the Oases In-between

Juju Fission: Women's Alternative Fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the Oases In-between was published as a critical and literary exploration of speculative narratives by African women writers. The work emerged from the scholarly focus of Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi, who sought to categorize and interpret the intersection of traditional African cosmology, or 'juju,' with the frameworks of speculative and alternative fiction. It serves as a study of how desert and oasis landscapes function as metaphorical spaces for female agency, re-imagining the geography of the Sahara and the Kalahari through a lens of resistance and innovation.

The volume is recognized for its academic contribution to post-colonial and gender studies, specifically in its effort to document how indigenous storytelling traditions adapt to the constraints and possibilities of modern genre fiction. Ogunyemi’s approach emphasizes the fluid boundaries of 'fission'—a play on the fragmentation of traditional structures—to describe how these authors carve out new identities within their literary canons. It was received by the academic community as a foundational text for understanding the localized aesthetics of speculative literature within African contexts.