Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani is an award-winning writer, educator, and spirit woman. Mawiyah is an eighth-generation Witch, Egun Medium, and Priestess of OYA in the Yoruba system of spirituality. She is also editor in chief of the culture and Afrikan Traditional Spirituality e-zine, Oya N'Soro. Mawiyah is the host of FishHeadsinRedGravy, a podcast dedicated to celebrating marginalized people of the esoteric/occult world. Her writings have appeared in numerous magazines, including The Crab Orchard Review, Dark Eros, and Catch the Fire. She has written several plays, including Spring Chickens, which won her the Southern Black Theatre Festival's 2012-2013 Playwright of the Year Award. She is also the Critical Mass 8 Literary Award winner and a KAT Artist Residency recipient. Mawiyah currently lives, writes, and conducts Orisa rituals, spiritual consultations, workshops, house cleansings, and divinations in both northern and southern Louisiana. Visit her at www.MawiyahKaiELJamahBomani.com.

"Bomani, with her trademark love, directness, expertise, and wit, creates a guidebook for those of the diaspora wanting to utilize ancestral magic to navigate hostilities while protecting and soothing themselves."
--Eden Royce, award-winning author of Root Magic

"A powerful reclamation of spiritual sovereignty, transforming the very tools once used to oppress us into instruments of liberation, healing, and protection."
--Abiola Abrams, author of African Goddess Initiation and creatrix of the Faces of Oshun Oracle deck

"Hoodoo Saints and Root Warriors can bring you safety, wisdom, and blessed assurance."
--Sherry "That Hoodoo Lady" Shone, author of Hoodoo for Everyone

"[This book] opened my eyes to the abundant ways in which Hoodoo is not only deeply intertwined with my spiritual DNA but is in fact the power that fuels it."
--Christena Cleveland, PhD, author of God Is a Black Woman

"After reading Root Warriors and Hoodoo Saints, my heart is full, and the fire within me has been reignited."
--Mecca, astrologer and author, MyLifeCreated.com

"I am completely blown away by the fortitude, honesty, and beauty within Mawiyah."
--Granddaughter Crow, (Dr. Joy Gray), author of Wisdom of the Natural World

"Bold, brilliant, and deeply transformative. This book is not only exquisitely written...but it is also a book of profound necessity."
--Elyse Welles, author of Sacred Wild

"A book that is simultaneously full of love, rich with hope, and unapologetically fierce as it provides the information we need to prepare, protect, and find our strength."
--Rhonda Alin, founder of Black Women of Magick and Conjure

"Bomani ignites the fires of Hoodoo in an inimitable way...She takes readers behind the multidimensions of historical curtains to reveal the potential for empowerment through magick that Hoodoo has always possessed."
--Stephanie Rose Bird, author of 365 Days of Hoodoo

"A fierce and necessary volume that honors Black resistance and the power of conjure as a form of spiritual survival and political defiance. Bomani doesn't just write about resistance--she embodies it."
--Denise Alvarado, author of the Marie Laveau Voodoo Grimoire

"These pages contain tools to help you discover how to transform your pain into power, your rage into resilience, and your silence into change."
--Elhoim Leafar, author of Manifestation Magic and Dream Witchery

"Mawiyah unapologetically provides a blueprint for combating white supremacy, racism, and systemic oppression."
--Aly Kravetz, aka BronxWitch, founder and CEO of BronxWitch HeadQuarters

"An incredibly well-researched history of rarely known Hoodoo practitioners mixed seamlessly with accessible rituals for liberation."
--Marcelitte Failla Hendred, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University

"A map to the source of power colonization has tried to hide from us...It's a portal to untapped power for those of us expanding our awareness of ancestral magick."
--Dr. Sarah L. Webb, founder of Colorism Healing

"Bomani is such a brilliant, powerful source, resource, and thought leader in our tradition...She has an incredible way of disseminating very complex spiritual technology into accessible tools."
--Jo-Ná A. Williams, Esq.

"[This book] encourages us to do what [our ancestors] did during hard times: stand up against those that look to oppress us."
--Anibal "AB" Rodriguez, content creator, AB's Witch Journal

"Bomani's work beautifully tells the stories of our collective high ancestors who were the embodiments of revolution, freedom fighting, and endless resolve."
--Angèle Pressley, owner of Hoodoo Hussy Conjure Enterprises

"This thought-provoking book is unlike any other I have read in recent years."
--Chris Onareo, Olórìṣà, osychic medium and host of the We're Booked! podcast

"A powerful testament to the resilience, brilliance, and sacred defiance of Black spiritual traditions."
--Omisade Burney-Scott, founder/chief menopause steward, Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause podcast

"A vital work of remembrance and resistance."
--Emely Rumble, LICSW, author of Bibliotherapy in the Bronx

"This book is an act of spiritual justice, offering readers a sacred connection to their ancestral inheritance. A game changer!"
--Tamela J. Gordon, author of Hood Wellness

"A dynamic testament to how personal magic ripples out into the collective...This book is for anyone who believes in a better future and wants to explore how Hoodoo can help them contribute to it."
--Maria Minnis, author of Tarot for the Hard Work

Publisher: Llewellyn Publications

Pub date: 2025-11-08

Length: 448 pages