Binti also faces all the prejudices that come from those unfamiliar with her culture. “ No matter what choice I made, I was never going to have a normal life, really.” Okorafor deftly creates Binti’s character, bringing to mind the old days when I was seventeen and heading off across the country to college. We even cover our bodies with it… Here, in the launch port… I was an outsider I was outside.“Īn auspicious, classic beginning, one that captures the uncertainty of an unusually talented woman stretching beyond her tightly knit culture to experience something larger. Our ancestral land is life move away from it and you diminish. A sixteen-year old woman of the Himba tribe has been accepted into the prestigious Oomza University on a mathematics scholarship. Read December 2015 Recommended for fans space tribes, jellyfishīinti is a curious little novella by Okorafor, an author who has been my radar for bringing winds of Africa into science fiction and fantasy, and it does not disappoint.
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