Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okoraforis a Nigerian-American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction...
NationalityNigerian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth8 April 1974
CountryNigeria
imperfect flawed creatures
Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!
hurt done painful
Though I knew I shouldn’t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row.
evil use
Use your powers for good instead of evil
night together chaos
All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.
children doors faces
I slammed the door in the child's face, a horrific scream trapped in my throat.
believe thinking giving
It's ok to care about what other people think, but you should give a little more weight to what you, yourself, think...The habit of thinking is the habit of gaining strength. You're stronger than you believe.
crazy ready
You are not crazy. You are just ready to change.
tears finished cried
We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.
perspective fiction science-fiction
Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.
art writing people
People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing that they all have in common is that they are all a sort of magic. Sometimes the magic flows from one’s fingers, other times it is transferred to the person who experiences the result. Magic has always worked in mysterious ways.