If Sunny and her three Leopard friends don’t find the ghazal that was stolen from Udide, the spider will destroy the world. In Akata Woman, these reading lessons carry life-or-death consequences. Okorafor’s trilogy-and this third book in particular-wants to teach us how to read: how to read outside of an Anglo European context, outside the context of “serious” literature, outside our own daily constraints and concerns. Published by Penguin Random House, the book nevertheless has an indie sensibility that challenges the shibboleths of mainstream publishing. And indeed when Akata Witch, the first book in the series, was published in 2011, it was marketed as “the Nigerian Harry Potter.”īut Sunny Nwazue’s story resembles Harry’s only in the vaguest outlines and is a compelling read, even for those readers who have steadfastly resisted the adults-reading-YA trend. I know what you’re thinking-it sounds like Harry Potter. The book is the third in Okorafor’s “Nsibidi Scripts” trilogy, about a young girl named Sunny Nwazue who moves with her family from New York to Aba, Nigeria, and discovers that she belongs to a magical secret community known as the Leopard People.
Publisher: Viking Books for Young ReadersĪn iridescent Möbius-strip ghazal-written by Udide, a giant spider-is the enchanted object at the center of Nnedi Okorafor’s new young adult novel, Akata Woman. Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor Review by Deborah Williams
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