“…7 By the logic of reflective consciousness, therefore, by which we mean the recommendation of thought and care 3 See also her book, The Invention of Women (Oyewumi 1997), where she fully explores in relation to gender and sexuality the seniority-based structure of the Yoruba society prior to colonialism. In "Mythological Recuperation", Balogun (2018b) discusses the African-Canadian playwright, Djanet Sears, and her deployment of Yoruba performative resources in her play, Afrika Solo, and emphasizes the relevance of autogenesis to her change of name from Janet to Djanet, after her return home journey to Africa, especially how such an act of renaming helps to foreground her one-woman show, as well as her Governor-General award-winning play, Harlem Duet and The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God, in the context of an "epistemological verbal performance" and "text" in the Yoruba epistemic sense.…”