Who Fears Death
This is the first scifantasy set in Africa that I have read, and the author, Nnedi Okorafor has me hooked.
Her writing is fluid and easy to follow. One can really feel the setting around you as the events take place.
I can strongly recommend this book. For more on the story just log in and click the "read more" link.
Well-known for young adult novels (The Shadow Speaks; Zahrah the Windseeker),
Okorafor sets this emotionally fraught tale in post-apocalyptic Saharan
Africa. The young sorceress Onyesonwu—whose name means Who fears
death?—was born Ewu, bearing a mixture of her mother's features and
those of the man who raped her mother and left her for dead in the
desert. As Onyesonwu grows into her powers, it becomes clear that her
fate is mingled with the fate of her people, the oppressed Okeke, and
that to achieve her destiny, she must die. Okorafor examines a host of
evils in her chillingly realistic tale—gender and racial inequality
share top billing, along with female genital mutilation and complacency
in the face of destructive tradition—and winds these disparate concepts
together into a fantastical, magical blend of grand storytelling.
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