Akata Witch

Name: Akata Witch
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Nnedi Okorafor
ISBN: 9781977372420

Author: Nnedi Okorafor

Series: Nsibidi Scripts #1

Narrator: Yetide Badaki

Unabridged: 8 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/30/2018

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Fantasy, Social Themes

Synopsis

Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she has albinism. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing—she is a "free agent" with latent mystical power. Soon she's part of a quartet of students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. But will it be enough to help them when they are asked to catch a career criminal well-versed in powerful juju?

About Nnedi Okorafor

Nnedi Okorafor, born to Igbo Nigerian parents in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 8, 1974, is an author of fantasy and science fiction for both adults and younger readers. Her books include the Tor.com novella Binti, which won the 2015 Hugo and Nebula Awards; the children's book Long Juju Man, which won the 2007-08 Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa; and the novels Who Fears Death (World Fantasy Award winner) and Akata Warrior (Lodestar and Locus Award winner). She is an associate professor of creative writing and literature at the University at Buffalo.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rick on November 08, 2013

I spent the weekend with a great book: Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor. As you can guess, I’m a sucker for all kinds of mythology, and this middle grade/YA fantasy is steeped in the myth and magic of Nigeria. Our main character is Sunny, a twelve-year-old girl born in the U.S. but recently moved to her......more

Goodreads review by Miranda on December 09, 2020

We embrace those things that make us unique or odd. For only in these things can we locate and then develop our most individual abilities.Sunny was born in New York, but recently moved back to her homeland (Aba, Nigeria) and that transition has not been easy. She's bullied for her "Amer......more

Goodreads review by Samantha on July 30, 2020

TW: brief mentions of child abuse; some fatphobic language I listened to this on audio and it was so immersive. This was a unique magic system based in Nigerian folklore. Our MC was raised in America but has lived in Nigeria for years. This story explores themes of ethnicity and race, belonging, anc......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 21, 2018

What can I say? It felt very much like book one of Harry Potter in terms of plot and situation, only milder and set in Nigeria. It shouldn't have felt milder. Objectively, there were child mutilations and a serial murderer on the loose. And there wasn't some gigantic castle with enchantments up to pr......more

Goodreads review by Kim on September 30, 2011

So torn on this one about giving it a 3 or 4 star rating. Pros: Love that the story is set in Africa, with African and African American main characters, as well as an albino. Also, it goes the Percy Jackson route of explaining that what we call "learning disabilities" like ADD and dyslexia, are just......more