Author Amira Davis highlights connections between her vocation as a Jalimusa, or cultural storyteller; mothering narratives of other women; and the awesome undertaking of rearing healthy and well-adjusted, culturally conscious children. Davis is a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, community "othermother" and maternal activist. She is also an educator and advocate for community literacy development, and is committed to the cultural, social, intellectual, and economic uplift of Africana people.