Nnedi Okorafor

**Nnedimma Nkemdili** "**Nnedi**" **Okorafor**( o nyɛla bɛ ni lahi  mi so **Okorafor-Mbachu**;  bɛ dɔɣi o la Silimin goli  April dabaanii dali, yuuni  1974 ni) o nyɛla ŋun nyɛ Nigeria mini America sasabira mini  tabiibi salin' sabira n ti pahi fantasy din nyɛ bihi mini bikura dina. O nyɛla bɛ ni mi so ka o su  ''Binti Series'' ni o salinwaɣila din nyɛ  *[[Who Fears Death]]*, *[[Zahrah the Windseeker]]*, *[[Akata Witch]]*, *[[Akata Warrior]]*, *[[Lagoon (novel)|Lagoon]]* n ti pahi *[[Remote Control (2021 novel)|Remote Control]]*.

## Kpaŋmaŋa pina
### Novel and novellas

### Comics

### Short fiction, memoir and novelette

### Other awards
* 2005 – The Strange Horizons Reader's Choice Award for *[[Stephen King|Stephen King's]] Super-Duper Magical Negroes*
* 2007–2008 – Macmillan Writers' Prize for Africa for *Long Juju Man*
* 2008 – Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa for *Zahrah the Windseeker*
* 2012 – Black Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature (Fiction) for *Zahrah the Windseeker*
* 2015 – African Literary Person of the Year from *Brittle Paper*
* 2016 – Children's Africana Book Award for Best Book for Young Readers for *Chicken in the Kitchen*
*Mathical Honors for *Binti*

## Bibliography
**Children**
* *Long Juju Man* (2009, Macmillan Africa)
* *Iridessa and the Secret of the Never Mine* (2012, Disney Books)
**Chicken in the Kitchen* (2020, Lantana publishing)

**Young adult**
* *[[Zahrah the Windseeker]]* (2005, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; paperback 2008, Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)—writing as Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
* *[[Ikenga (novel)|Ikenga]]* (2020, Viking/Penguin/PRH) 
*The Desert Magician Duology
** *[[The Shadow Speaker]]* (2007, Hyperion/Disney)—writing as Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
** *Like Thunder* (2023, DAW/Astra/PRH) 
* Nsibidi Script Series 
** *[[Akata Witch]]* (2011, Viking/Penguin) (published as *What Sunny Saw in the Flames* in Nigeria and the UK by Cassava Republic Press)
** *[[Akata Warrior]]* (2017, Viking/Penguin/PRH) (published as *Sunny and the Mysteries of Osisi* in Nigeria and the UK by Cassava Republic Press)
***[[Akata Woman]]* (2022, Viking/Penguin/PRH)

**Adult**
* "Hello, Moto" (2011, Tor.com)
* *[[Kabu Kabu]]* (2013, Prime Books)
* *[[Lagoon (novel)|Lagoon]]* (2014, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.) (2015, Saga Press/Simon & Schuster)
**Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected (TED Books)* (2019, TED/Simon & Schuster)
**[[Remote Control (2021 novel)|Remote Control]]* (2021, Tor.com)
* *[[Noor (novel)|Noor]]* (2021, DAW/Penguin/PRH)
* *Death of the Author* (2025, William Morrow/HarperCollins) 
* Who Fears Death 
** *[[Who Fears Death]]* (2010, DAW/Penguin) 
** *[[The Book of Phoenix]]* (2015, DAW/Penguin/PRH) (prequel of *[[Who Fears Death]]*)
** *She Who Knows:Firespitter*  (2024, DAW/Astra/PRH) 
** *One Way Witch*  (forthcoming 2025, DAW/Astra/PRH) 
* Binti Trilogy 
** *[[Binti (novel)|Binti]]* (2015, Tor.com)
** **' (2017, Tor.com)
****' (2018, Tor.com)

**Comics**
* *Black Panther: Long Live the King* (2017, Marvel)
* *[[LaGuardia (comics)|LaGuardia]]* (2018, Dark Horse)
* *Shuri* (2018, Marvel)
* *Wakanda Forever* (2018, Marvel)
* *Antar: the Black Knight* (2018, IDW/Mirage Films)
* *Shuri: Wakanda Forever* (2020, Marvel)
* *After The Rain* (2021, Abrams ComicArts – Megascope)
**Short fiction** 
* *The Palm Tree Bandit*  (Strange Horizons, December 2000) 
* *Crossroads* ( The Witching Hour Anthology, 2001)
* *Windseekers* (2002)
* *Asuquo, or The Winds of Harmattan* (2003)
* *The Magical Negro* (2004)
* *When Scarabs Multiply* (2004)
* *Biafra* (Margin Anthology of Magical Realism, 2005) 
* *Asunder* (African Writer Online, 2007) 
* *The Popular Mechanic* (2007)
* *The Chaos Magician* (2007) 
* *Spider the Artist* (Seeds of Change Anthology, 2008) 
* *From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7* (Clarkesworld #32, May 2009) 
* *On the Road* (2009)
* *Icon* (2010)
* *Tumaki* (2010)
* *The Go-Slow* (Way of the Wizard Anthology, 2010) 
* *[[The Book of Phoenix|The Book of Phoenix (Excepted from the Great Book)]]* (Clarkesworld #54, March 2011) 
* *Wahala* (2011)
* *How Nnedi Got Her Curved Spine* (2012)
* *The Baboon War* (2012)
* *The Chaos Magician's Mega Chemistry Set* (Apex Magazine #36, May 2012) 
* *African Sunrise* (Excerpted from The Great Book)  (Subterranean Press, 2012) 
* *Moom!* ( "AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers", 2012) 
* *The Girl with the Magic Hands* (Worldreader, 2013)
* *Ozioma the Wicked* (2013)
* *Bakasi Man* (2013)  
* "*It's War"* short story in "Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History" (2014, Crossed Genres) 
* *Showlogo* (2014)
* "*Sunrise*" in *[[Africanfuturism: An Anthology]]* (2020, Brittle Paper) 
* *Sankofa* (Decision Points Anthology, 2016) 
* *Rusties* (2016) with Wanuri Kahiu (Clarkesworld #121, October 2016)
* *Africanfuturist 419* (Clarkesworld #122, November 2016) 
* *History* (2017)
* *Mother of Invention* (Slate, February 2018) 
* *The Heart of the Matter* (2018)
* *The Black Pages* (Black Stars, Amazon Original Stories 2021)
* *Just Out of Jupiter's Reach* (The Far Reaches collection, 2023)
* *Stones* (Clarkesworld, September 2023) 
* *Dark Home* (Out There Screaming anthology by Jordan Peele, 2023)

## Selected filmography
* *Brave New Souls: Black Sci-Fi & Fantasy Writers of the 21st Century* (2013) – Herself
* *[[Ada Twist, Scientist (TV series)|Ada Twist, Scientist]]* (Season 4, Episode 19) — Alex Akerele

## Kundivihira