In the book The Healers, what are some metaphors Ajoa uses, important quotes, and quotes from the author when describing Ajoa?

The Healers was written by Ayi Kwei Armah in 1978. It is a novel that takes place around the time of the early British colonization of the Ashanti kingdom (present-day Ghana) in the late 1800s. The Healers, as the title states, is a group of healing people who are concerned that allowing British colonization to break apart the African continent will destroy the native people's way of life. The story is about a return to the unified, united way of life of the old Africa, prior to the era of colonialism, greed, and power grabs across the continent.
One of the characters, named Ajoa, is the eighteen-year-old daughter of Damfo and Ama. Her relationship with her father is healthier than her relationship with her mother. When her parents split up, Ajoa chose to live with her father. She became very loyal to him. She is an incredibly beautiful teenager who eventually falls in love with Densu. Densu is an orphan who feels like an outcast. He faces an identity crisis and does not have any clear direction in the story due to living in a society that does not hold his values. He is all alone in his desire to retain old African values in a continent that has become full of disunity.
Here are some important quotes from the novel:

If we do not help the whites, we shall be left by the roadside. And if we are such fools as to stand against the whites, they will grind us till we become less than impotent, less than grains of bad snuff tossing in a storm.
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I am saying this is seed time, far from harvest time.
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Send me words of eloquence.
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The present is where we get lost -- if we forget our past and have no vision of the future

Ajoa shares in Densu's beliefs, to an extent, and these quotes are representative of the feelings of the characters who hold traditional African values (those prior to British colonization). These metaphors paint a vivid picture of the crossroads that the traditionalists face. Ajoa is one of them, and she believes that her people must be unified, even if forced to help the whites, to preserve the culture.
So the present invasion of whites is a test of their resilience during a time when she and her people should be sewing seeds of faith, courage, and wisdom. And the words of eloquence serve as healing voices for the souls of the traditionalists.