In such short order she sets up an environment and history and an ambiance that just feels so full. There’s not much more I can say, so I’ll just repeat it one more time for the record, Okorafor’s world-building is top notch. Between receiving some devastating personal news and being faced with severe lack of support from Himba elders, Binti does her best to prevent war on her own, with some mixed results but an overall coming together of peoples that is her specialty/trademark as a harmonizer. She’s traveling back to her people, the Himba, alongside her new friend and guide Mwinyi, to try and prevent yet another clash between the Meduse and Khoush people (her efforts from the first book not being quite enough, apparently).
In this last installation, Binti is still on her home planet, having just learned quite a bit about her own personal ancestry, abilities and ancient alien visitors to Earth (and what they’d left behind). Nnedi is a Full Professor at the University at Buffalo, New York (SUNY).“But couldn’t you be broken and still bring change?” The final installment of the Binti Trilogy (titled The Night Masquerade) will be released in September and the sequel to Akata Witch (title Akata Warrior) is due out in October. Clarke Award finalist), her Binti Trilogy (the first of which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella) and her children’s book Chicken in the Kitchen (winner of an Africana Book Award). Her latest works include her novel The Book of Phoenix (an Arthur C. Nnedi’s books include Lagoon (a British Science Fiction Association Award finalist for Best Novel), Who Fears Death (a World Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel), Kabu Kabu (A Publisher’s Weekly Best Book for Fall 2013), Akata Witch (an Best Book of the Year), Zahrah the Windseeker (winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature), and The Shadow Speaker (a CBS Parallax Award winner).
In a profile of Nnedi’s work titled, “Weapons of Mass Creation”, The New York Times called Nnedi’s imagination “stunning”.
Born in the United States to two Nigerian immigrant parents, Nnedi is known for weaving African culture into creative evocative settings and memorable characters. Nnedi Okorafor is an international award-winning novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism for both children and adults.
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