Aurora Mizutani, born Dupelola Osaretin Ajala, known as Dupelola Ajala, daughter of Olabisi Ajala.

When Love Governs: Rethinking Power Inside Intimate Relationships Get it on Amazon We are comfortable talking about power in politics. We are comfortable talking about authority in organizations. We are far less comfortable asking whether governance operates inside our closest relationships. The default vocabulary for relational strain is psychological: communication problems, attachment styles, and emotional dysfunction. That language captures experience, but it often misses structure. What if some relationships function not simply as emotional partnerships - but as small governance systems? In Micro-Cults: Intimate Governance as a Mechanism of Allegiance, I introduce the concept of the micro-cult to describe intimate systems in which belonging becomes regulated through three mechanisms: loyalty extraction, epistemic control, and exit-cost inflation. Get it on Amazon This does not mean families are cults. It does not mean intense love is pathological. It means that under certain con...

What Families Are Not Told About the Final Week When Morphine Enters the Room GET IT ON AMAZON There's a moment in many hospital rooms that changes everything. The doctor says, "We're going to focus on comfort now." Morphine is started. Within days, your loved one stops speaking. Stops eating. Stops drinking. And then - they're gone. If you've been through it, you know the feeling. The timeline feels compressed. The silence feels abrupt. And afterward, a question lingers: Did the morphine cause this? In my new book, Morphine, Consent, and the Final Week, I explore that question through research, medical data, and the story of my friend Vicky Talmadge, who died in January 2026 after consenting to morphine in the final stage of cancer. GET IT ON AMAZON Here's what the evidence actually says: Morphine, when properly titrated, is not designed to cause death. Studies do not show consistent proof that appropriately managed opioids significantly shorten surviva...

Aurora Mizutani's acclaimed book tackles Nigeria, Women, and the 21st Century Problem Nobody Wants to Name Everyone agrees misogyny is bad.  The argument starts the moment you ask how it actually works. Get it on Amazon "Nigeria's Women, Still Waiting" by Aurora MizutaniIn 21st-century Nigeria, gender inequality is rarely loud. It does not usually announce itself with slurs or explicit bans. Instead, it shows up quietly, professionally, and politely. In invitations that never come. In credits that disappear. In panels where women speak but never lead. In legacies where daughters maintain the archive and sons inherit the microphone. This book is about that version of misogyny.  The one that smiles. The Illusion of Progress Nigeria is often described as a place of "strong women." And it is. Women run markets, churches, households, NGOs, and entire informal economies. They hold communities together when institutions fail. They fund families when men disappear....