Shadow Speaker, Nnedi Okorafor
Shadow Speaker, Nnedi Okorafor
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Shadow Speaker

Author: Nnedi Okorafor

Narrator: Délé Ogundiran

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/26/2023


Synopsis

A deluxe, expanded edition of an out-of-print early novel from Africanfuturist luminary Nnedi Okorafor, with a brand-new introduction from the author.

Niger, West Africa, 2074

It is an era of tainted technology and mysterious mysticism. A great change has happened all over the planet, and the laws of physics aren't what they used to be.

Within all this, I introduce you to Ejii Ugabe, a child of the worst type of politician. Back when she was nine years old, she was there as her father met his end. Don't waste your tears on him: this girl's father would throw anyone under a bus to gain power. He was a cruel, cruel man, but even so, Ejii did not rejoice at his departure from the world. Children are still learning that some people don't deserve their love.

Now fifteen years old and manifesting the abilities given to her by the strange Earth, Ejii decides to go after the killer of her father. Is it for revenge or something else? You will have to find out in this book.

I am the Desert Magician, and this is a novel I have conjured for you, so I'm certainly not going to just tell you here.

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 Nnedi on August 16, 2008

Absolutely wonderful. :-D......more

Goodreads review by duck on March 07, 2014

I am so torn over this book. It's a post-apocalyptic dystopian future fantasy set in West Africa, starring a teen girl with magic powers who goes on a quest with a really kickass warrior queen, the queen's two husbands, another teen with magic powers, and some talking animals. It should have been SO......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany) on September 24, 2023

2.5 stars rounded up I'm a bit of two minds about Shadow Speaker. On the one hand, it's inventive, sometimes verging on whimsical, offering a different take on a dystopian future where hope still exists and magic is woven together with science. There are elements of it, scenes, ideas, and world-build......more

Goodreads review by Brok3n on September 26, 2023

"Anything goes" world-building Shadow Speaker is an expanded re-issue of an out-of-print novel The Shadow Speaker by self-described Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism Nigerian-American author Nnedi Okorafor. (Okorafor mostly eschews the word "magic" in favor of "juju".) I haven't read the original ve......more

Goodreads review by Brooks on July 23, 2016

duuuuuuuuuuuuude. Look. I ate this up in one sitting. I could barely convince myself to put it down to pee (spoiler alert, I didn't, I took it with me.) I wish I could give it another star. I kind of want to fight people giving it bad reviews. I want to erase it from my memory so I can read it again......more