Winner of both the Nebula and Hugo Awards for Best Novella.
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.
Finalist for Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award
My Beginnings were in the dark.
We all dwelled in the dark, mad scientist and speciMen alike.In the darkness, I slept.
Until I woke.Until the day
I learned to fly.
Finalist for the A British Science Fiction Association Award and Tiptree Award
Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
“Dear friends, are you afraid of death?”
—Patrice Lumumba, first and only elected
Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo
Finalist for the Locus Award for Best Collection
Finalist for the Andre Norton Award for Best Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
AKATA WITCH 1:
Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City. She looks West African, but is so sensitive to the sun (due to her albinism) that she can’t play soccer during the day. She doesn't seem to fit in anywhere.
Then she learns why.
Winner of the The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature
In the northern Ooni Kingdom fear of the unknown runs deep, and children born dada are rumored to have special powers. Thirteen year old Zahrah Tsami feels like a normal kid - she grows her own flora computer; has mirrors sewn onto her cloths; and stays clear of the Forbidden Greeny Jungle.
Winner of the Children’s Africana Book Award for Best Book for Young Readers
"It’s a tragedy for a mere girl to experience such deep sorrow. But things were about to change for this girl. Oh yes. When things are meant to be, they will. The world always turns and the candle always burns. And Chidera was about to learn that one can get the very things one yearns." From the Introduction of The Girl with the Magic Hands
Winner of the Parallax Award and Image Award Nominee
Haunted by vengeance. Destined for peace.
Niger, West Africa, 2070
Winner of the Macmillan Writers' Prize for Africa
Should I run? I thought. A ghost can run faster than me. No, I won't run. Ngoli has heard many stories about Long Juju Man from her grandfather. But she is not prepared for her first meeting with him in the forest, or for the strange friendship which follows...
