@booklet {11411, title = {Noor}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {214 pp.}, publisher = {DAW Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A complex dystopia using traditional African myths and stories and magic realism concerning a immense company that sells everything that is trying to enlarge food sales by eliminating the farmers and herders.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-0756416096 }, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974)} } @booklet {10526, title = {LaGuardia: A Very Modern Story of Immigration}, year = {2018}, note = {

Collects issues 1 - 4 of LaGuardia from Berger Books, 2018-2019

}, month = {2018-19}, publisher = {Dark Horse Comics}, address = {Milwaukie, OR}, abstract = {

Graphic novel satire on immigration with aliens from space landing in Nigeria and providing the country with the technology to radically improve life, while also mixing their DNA with human DNA. The novel depicts opposition to the aliens as immigrants, particularly in the United States.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974)} } @booklet {10124, title = {"Mother of Invention"}, howpublished = {Slate}, year = {2018}, note = {

Rpt., without the response,\ in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 213-31; and in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Borg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andr{\'e}s Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 15-33.

}, month = {February 21, 2018}, abstract = {

Climate-change dystopia set in Lagos, Nigeria. The ending suggests the possibility of a sequel.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author, US author}, url = {https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/mother-of-invention-a-new-short-story-by-nnedi-okorafor.html. }, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974)}, editor = {Stacey Higgenbotham} } @booklet {10748, title = {"Rusties"}, howpublished = {Clarkesworld}, volume = {no. 121}, year = {2016}, month = {October 2016}, pages = {EJournal}, abstract = {

The story is set in an African future where robot traffic police with ever-more-enhanced AI capabilities ended the traffic chaos in cities but also could access all personal data from cell phones.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author, Kenyan author}, url = {http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor-kahiu_10_16/}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) and Wanuri Kahui (b. 1980)} } @booklet {10444, title = {Binti}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, publisher = {Tom Doherty Associates}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

First volume of a trilogy in which a young girl of a small African tribe who has exceptional mathematical skills and the ability to bring people together is admitted to the most prestigious university in the universe. In this volume, she helps to end a long-standing war between humans and medusae. See also Binti: Home. New York: Tor.com, 2016 in which Binti returns home accompanied by a medusa with the novel focusing on Binti\’s troubled relations with her family and the other tribes in the area, with both eutopian and dystopian elements. The third volume of the trilogy, Binti: The Night Masquerade. New York: Tor.com, 2018. in which war breaks out on Earth because one tribe tries, unsuccessfully to kill the medusa.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974)} } @booklet {8787, title = {The Book of Phoenix}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, publisher = {DAW Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A young woman in the U.S. who had been genetically modified and raised with other genetically modified children escapes from her keepers and travels to Africa and her actions transform both Africa and the U.S.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974)} } @booklet {8102, title = {Lagoon}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, publisher = {Hodder \& Stoughton}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Fantasy is central to the novel, but it is set in the dystopia of contemporary Lagos, Nigeria, but hope is held out for a eutopia of collective identity brought about by a visitor from space. The author says that Lagos is the Portuguese for lagoon.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974)} } @booklet {10784, title = {"Poison Fish"}, howpublished = {WBEZ 91.5 Radio{\textquoteright}s {\textquotedblleft}After Water{\textquotedblright} series}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {Radio}, publisher = { WBEZ 91.5 Radio}, address = {Chicago, IL}, abstract = {

Climate-change dystopia set a hundred years in the future in which water is scarce and Lake Michigan is poisonous.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, url = {https://soundcloud.com/afterwater/after-water-ep-1-poison-fish}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974)} } @booklet {6381, title = {Who Fears Death}, year = {2010}, month = {2010}, publisher = {DAW}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a future Africa where some tribal conflicts are still leading to genocide. The novel develops through a girl\ who is rejected by her own tribe for both being female and being born of rape. But she has powers that allow her to change her shape and to visit the spirit world, and she uses those powers to try to bring about change.\ A prequel is her The Book of Phoenix. New York: DAW Books, 2015, part of which was previously published as \“The Book of Phoenix [Excerpted from the Great Book].\” Clarkesworld Magazine, no. 54 (March 2011). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor_03_11/

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974)} } @booklet {10800, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Spider the Artist{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Seeds of Change}, year = {2008}, note = {

Rpt. as by Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 57-70; and in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 122 (July 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/spider-the-artist/

}, month = {2008}, pages = {193-215}, publisher = {Prime Books}, address = {[Holicong, PA]}, abstract = {

The story is set in a near future Nigeria where the oil copies have developed AIs to protect their pipelines from people breaching them by killing the people. Only the government and the wealthy get any benefit from the oil, and the land is badly polluted.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9780809573103}, url = {https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/spider-the-artist/}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {5975, title = {The Shadow Speaker}, year = {2007}, note = {

A revised and updated edition with a new introduction by the author was published New York: DAW Books/Astra Publishing House, 2023.

}, month = {2007}, publisher = {Jump at the Sun/Hyperion}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A young adult novel that begins with a simple eutopia followed by an authoritarian dystopia before becoming a fantasy adventure based on African myth. Loose connection to 2005 Okorafor-Mbachu. With the publication of new edition the book became the first volume of The Desert Magician\’s Duology followed by Like Thunder. The Desert Magician\’s Duology: Book 2. New York: DAW Books/Astra Publishing House, 2023, which is mostly fantasy based on African myth.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974)} } @booklet {5665, title = {Zahrah the Windseeker}, year = {2005}, note = {

An illustrated version has been published in Lagos, Nigeria: Farafina, 2007.

}, month = {2005}, publisher = {Houghton Mifflin}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Eutopia. Young adult coming-of-age fantasy in which a young girl has to leave home to undertake a dangerous trip to bring back the cure for her best friend\&$\#$39;s snake bite. The eutopian setting is the community in which she lives, which, although far from perfect, is generally presented very positively.\ A related story is \"From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7.\” Clarkesworld Magazine, no. 32 (May 2009). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor_05_09/

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974)} } @booklet {5541, title = {"When Scarabs Multiply"}, howpublished = {So Long Been Dreaming}, year = {2004}, month = {2004}, pages = {70-78}, publisher = {Arsenal Pulp Press}, address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia set in Africa and based on African myths in a village in which women and girls, who had been being trained equally, are made subservient to men. A woman leader returns, kills the man who had made the changes, and re-establishes equality. But the ending leaves doubts.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974)}, editor = {[Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) and Uppinder Mehan} }