Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor is a story about a young albino girl named Sunny, of American-Nigerian ancestry, who currently lives in Nigeria. Dealing with bullying due to looking different from her ...

Born in New York to Nigerian parents, 12-year-old Sunny follows her family back to their home country, where she finds it hard to fit in. Not only is she treated like a foreigner, but she is albino ...

Read Brave, the free annual citywide book club that brings communities together, hosts two events centered on Nnedi Okorafor’s young adult novel “Akata Witch,” which explores communities through ...

While we celebrate the release of The Akata Warrior, the second book in the Akata series, we wonder why it takes on a different title in Nigeria. Nigerian-American Sci-Fi novelist, Nnedi Okorafor ...

“Akata Witch” by Nnedi Okorafor (Viking, 352 pgs., $17.99) The protagonist at the center of the young adult novel “Akata Witch” lives in many worlds. She is, in the truest sense, African-American: ...

Novelist Okorafor (Akata Witch) explains in this eloquent memoir how a harrowing medical experience caused her to reevaluate her potential, realize new goals, and begin writing science fiction.

Nnedi Okorafor has been pioneering African Futurism since she began writing, from her award-winning book Who Fears Death to the critically-acclaimed Akata Witch series. She Who Knows: Firespitter ...

A young girl known as “the adopted daughter of death” comes of age in the electrifying latest from Okorafor (Akata Witch). As a child, Sankofa discovers a mysterious, glowing green seed, which, before ...