Ajebutter Women

Ajé butter Women is an incisive story collection about women of Nigerian origin navigating the worlds they inherit— and the lives they choose for themselves. From the United States to Nigeria, daughters grow up learning the quiet rules of respectability and what it means to be the “ Good African Daughter” : be obedient, make your family proud, never dishonor those who sacrificed for you.

These women and girls are raised to appear polished and respectable, yet even privilege cannot shield the...