![]() ![]() She names her daughter Onyesonwu, which means “Who Fears Death?” in an ancient African tongue. She gives birth to a baby girl with hair and skin the color of sand and instinctively knows that her daughter is different. But when the only surviving member of a slain Okeke village is brutally raped, she manages to escape, wandering farther into the desert. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate the Okeke. ![]() In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. It’s a rare and lucky thing for me to start my year of reading with such an excellent and compelling tale as Who Fears Death At times heart-warming, and at others, absolutely heart-wrenching, Who Fears Death is both a testament to hope, and an elegy for all those who have been through the struggles of the Okeke as a people. From her roots as a child of an Okeke mother and a brutal Nuru rapist, through her realization of her role as a sorceress, and potential place in a prophecy of world-changing consequence, Onye’s journey is one of struggle, joy, despair and hope. Who Fears Death is the fourth novel by Nigerian-American author Nnedi Okorafor, and tells the story of a young woman Onyesonwu. ![]()
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