"When Scarabs Multiply"
| Title | "When Scarabs Multiply" |
| Year for Search | 2004 |
| Authors | Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]](b. 1974) |
| Secondary Authors | Hopkinson, [Noelle] Nalo(b. 1960), and Mehan, Uppinder |
| Tertiary Authors | Okorafor, Nnedi[mma Nkemdili](b. 1974), and Hopkinson, Nalo |
| Secondary Title | So Long Been Dreaming |
| Pagination | 70-78 |
| Date Published | 2004 |
| Publisher | Arsenal Pulp Press |
| Place Published | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Keywords | African American author, Female author |
| Annotation | 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. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | African American female author (b. 1974) of Igbo heritage. |
| Full Text | 2004 Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] (b. 1974). “When Scarabs Multiply.” So Long Been Dreaming. Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004), 70-78. PSt 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. African American female author of Igbo heritage. |
