![]() ![]() ![]() This book deals with a lot of harsh topics. This brings her quest, complete with her three best friends, to a very strong beginning. At his funeral, her grief triggers the powers of a sorceress within her. Their world has one group, the Nuru, is literally committing genocide against the Okeke, which includes Onyesonwu and her mother.Īt 16, Onyesonwu’s beloved stepfather dies, throwing her world into chaos. There is violence inherent in the story’s world. We witness her conception at the beginning of the novel, which is graphic and violent, much like the world she is born into. Onyesonwu’s name translates to “who fears death” in Igbo, one of the major languages of Okorafor’s parents’ native Nigeria. The apocalypse in this imagining is a nuclear holocaust, with Onyesonwu as its title hero. Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death brings a hero’s familiar story arc to post-apocalypse Africa. Martin is producing a show based on Nnedi Okorafor’s post-apocalyptic Nigerian fantasy tale, Who Fears Death. By Ceillie Simkiss 5 years ago George R.R. ![]()
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