Who Fears Death

Who fears death / Nnedi Okorafor. – New York : DAW Books, [2010]

386 p. ; 24 cm.

ISBN: 9780756406172

1. Africa – Fiction. 2. Fantasy fiction. 3. Feminist fiction. 4. Genocide --Fiction. 5. Magic --Fiction. 6. Racially mixed people -- Africa --Fiction.

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In the future, in an Africa that is almost entirely desert, angry and determined Onyesonwu (her name means Who fears death?) demands that the village sorcerer Aro teach her the Great Mystic Points. He refuses because she is a girl. She is also Ewu, a racially mixed child, a child of weaponized rape. Her biological father was part of the army that burned her mother’s village to the ground. He was also a powerful evil sorcerer. In addition to her unusual skin color, Onyesonwu has also inherited his magical power. Using the raw power of her untrained magic she forces Aro to take her as a student. She will use her magic, her anger and her determination to stop the genocide and save her people.