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Meet International award-winning Nigerian-American writer & Novelist Nnedi Okorafor. Nnedi Okorafor is an international award-winning novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism for both children and adults.Image may be NSFW.
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Born in the United States to two Nigerian immigrant parents, Nnedi is known for weaving African culture into creative evocative settings and memorable characters.Image may be NSFW.
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In a profile of Nnedi’s work titled, “Weapons of Mass Creation”, The New York Times called Nnedi’s imagination “stunning”.Image may be NSFW.
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Nnedi’s books include:
- Lagoon (a British Science Fiction Association Award finalist for Best Novel), adult
- Who Fears Death (a World Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel), adult
- The Book of Phoenix (an Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist), adult
- The Binti Trilogy (the first of which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella and the second which is a Hugo Award finalist), adult
- Chicken in the Kitchen (winner of an Africana Book Award), children
- Kabu Kabu (A Publisher’s Weekly Best Book for Fall 2013), adult
- The Akata series (Akata Witch and Akata Warrior, Akata Witch being an Amazon.com Best Book of the Year, Akata Warrior being a finalist for the World Science Fiction Society Award), young adult
- Zahrah the Windseeker (winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature)
- The Shadow Speaker (a CBS Parallax Award winner), young adult
- Long Juju Man (winner of the Macmillan Writers’ Prize for Africa), middle gradeImage may be NSFW.
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Comics:
- Black Panther: Long Live the King (Marvel)
- Antar: the Black Knight (IDW/Mirage Films)
- LaGuardia
- Wakanda Forever (Marvel)Image may be NSFW.
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Nnedi Okorafor announced that George R. R. Martin is executive-producing the TV series of her award-winning novel, Who Fears Death. Martin is the author of best-selling series of fantasy books Game of Thrones, which was adapted into the famous TV series.Image may be NSFW.
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This is a huge feat for the prolific writer Nnedi Okafor who continues to dominate our spheres and beyond, with titles that are packed with our Nigerian heritage, including the novella Binti which won both the 2016 Nebula Award and 2016 Hugo Award.
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(Above) Nnedi Okafor and her film director Wanuri Kahiu (Pumzi, Rafiki) at her place in Chicago. She wrote: So epic. Now we’ve both been to each other’s homes (I’ve visited her home in Nairobi, Kenya). Wanuri and I are collaborating on a plethora of projects, so stay tuned.Image may be NSFW.
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