Binti
| Title | Binti |
| Year for Search | 2015 |
| Authors | Okorafor, Nnedi[mma Nkemdili](b. 1974) |
| Date Published | 2015 |
| Publisher | Tom Doherty Associates |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | African American author, Female author |
| Annotation | 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. |
| Holding Institutions | Public |
| Author Note | African American female author (b. 1974) of Igbo heritage. |
| Full Text | 2015 Okorafor, Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] (b. 1974). Binti. New York: Tom Doherty Associates. 90 pp. Public 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. African American female author of Igbo heritage. |
