![]() ![]() Okorafor is lauded as a prolific and provocative visionary in her field of primarily science fiction and fantasy writing. ![]() Okorafor identifies as Naijamerican to express her relationship with her Nigerian-American identity as a sometimes integrative, sometimes parallel, cross-contextual experience and perspective related to all facets of her sense of self through growing up in the U.S., numerous trips to Nigeria visiting family and community, and the combination of those contexts as she experiences them in all places and creative endeavors. in 1969 for schooling but did not return to Nigeria due to the Nigerian Civil War. Nnedi Okorafor was born in 1974 in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Igbo Nigerian parents who had travelled to the U.S. In her own words, “when there is silence bad things happen… I am all about dialogue.” Her writing challenges our ideas about the assumptions of our lived contexts and encourages dialogue and movement. ![]() In her writing, Okorafor explores, among many others, the themes of cross-contextual identity, our relationships to difference, and nurturing expansiveness and possibility from a position of historical and systemic awareness. Our April selection for Ackerman’s Community Book Club is the Hugo and Nebula award winning novella “Binti” by Nnedi Okorafor. ![]()
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