Coding is an African traditional practice of transferring a m essage through a set of signals. Instead of using everyone ’s language to transfer a message, coders use certain codes to signify a message to a particular person. Reflecting Naylor ’s use of coding in her novel Mama Day, this article explores how the mother character uses coded language to save her family . Depicting as one of the most powerful conjure women, Mama Day knows that Cocoa can ’t be saved anywhere in the world unless George believes in African traditional practices and gives his hand to save her. H aving brought up in the western culture and considering African traditional practices as superstitious, George could neither understand nor accept African traditional practices. Understanding his mind set, Mama Day uses coded language, which George could d ecipher only at the time his sacrifice to save his wife Cocoa