While West Africa has always occupied her heart and imagination, writing came later. The former is science fiction that’s rooted in Africa the latter centers on African Americans.) The U.S.-born child of Nigerian immigrants who never lost sight of their heritage, Okorafor was raised in suburban South Holland and Olympia Fields, but her family visited Nigeria annually. (She defines her work as Africanfuturism, not to be confused with Afrofuturism. Nigeria is the setting for most of Okorafor’s novels.
It comes just two months after the release of the popular writer’s latest adult title, Noor, about a woman in Nigeria in the near future whose body is extensively augmented with biotechnology. The YA series follows a 12-year-old Nigerian American girl who discovers she has magical powers and embarks on high-stakes missions with her friends. Her newest work, Akata Woman, the third book in the Nsibidi Scripts series, hits shelves this month.
Defeating the guardians of the prize will take more from Sunny than she has to give, and triumph will mean she will be forever changed.Photograph: Viking Books for Young Readers With the help of her friends, Sunny embarks on a mission to find a precious object hidden deep in an otherworldly realm.
Now, those hard lessons and abilities are put to the test in a quest so dangerous and fantastical, it would be madness to go…but may destroy the world if she does not. Throughout her adventures in Akata Witch and Akata Warrior, she had to navigate the balance between nearly everything in her life-America and Nigeria, the “normal” world and the one infused with juju, human and spirit, good daughter and powerful Leopard Person. “In this series, Okorafor creates a stunningly original world of African magic that draws on Nigerian folk beliefs and rituals instead of relying on the predictable tropes of Western fantasy novels.”įrom the moment Sunny Nwazue discovered she had mystical energy flowing in her blood, she sought to understand and control her powers. The electrifying third book in the series that started with Akata Witch, named one of Time magazine’s “100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time” and “100 Best YA Books of All Time,” from award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor.
0 kommentar(er)
