The women in Ake gave left me with so much more hope for Africa than the previous novels. The women are smart, well-rounded individuals who work hard and care about their neighbors. It was so refreshing to see a supportive, well-articulated mother figure, and a school mistress who wasn't there for anything more than the education of her students.

Wild Christian seems to enjoy her role as disciplinarian. She is tough, and intensely loyal to her family. She is also universally generous and even takes in underprivileged children. At the end of the autobiography, her activism comes to its pinnacle when she organized the Women's Union, concerned with women's social issues and the betterment of the community. While at the Union, Wild Christian shows her leadership abilities and mediates problems that arise in Egbaland and the surrounding countryside. In these instances, she transforms her feisty, aggressive nature into problem-solving and diplomacy. Like Beere, she believes in education and wants the best for Wole and the other children. Beere is a very progressive activist, and even travels to England on behalf of the people of Egbaland. These woman give the reader a positive hopeful attitude for the future of Wole’s homeland.