This scholarship challenges Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀'s novel A Spell of Good Things' trinity of gender, power, and identity, and situates its analysis within Nigerian political and social discourses and African feminist arguments today. Adébáyọ̀'s novel depicts that gender identity is not a biological immanent essential, but an intermediary performance required by socio-economic environments, colonial pasts, and intersecting powers like class and ethnicity. A close reading and application of Judith Butler's gender performativity theory and Kimberlé Crenshaw's intersectionality framework throughout the research reveals how characters move in and subvert traditional gender expectations within a postcolonial setting marked by poverty, patriarchy, and political motive. The novel brings to the fore the gender role reversals and subverts fixed Nigerian masculinity and femininity, revealing how economic crisis forces adaptive gendered performances in the home and in the public sphere. The mother assumes a breadwinner's role traditionally masculine, while young people like Ẹniọlá and Bùsọ́lá move through gendered expectations of poverty. The political power dynamics complicate gender performances such that male characters speak traditional patriarchal desires enshrined in social control as well as violence. The study discovers that A Spell of Good Things not just challenges patriarchal and colonial discourses but also deepens understanding of African gender identities through tacit expressions of resistance and accommodation. Through an intersection of feminist and postcolonial theories, the book provides a rich contribution to gender studies scholarship by revealing the ongoing redefinition of gender, power, and identity in postcolonial African literature.