Nnedi Okorafor

**Nnedimma Nkemdili** "**Nnedi**" **Okorafor** (ma bí **Okorafor-Mbachu**; efu óchu ekélé nolu méjo efu ódò , 1974) íche oma  Nigerian American kía kí ótakada yí science fiction kpaí fantasy lugbo abo ogijo manyu Abímoto í chéné ku ma ñyọ ñyọ efu eñwu ye í ''Binti Series'' kpaí ótakada oluka kí ko  *[[Who Fears Death]]*, *[[Zahrah the Windseeker]]*, *[[Akata Witch]]*, *[[Akata Warrior]]*, *[[Lagoon (novel)|Lagoon]]* manyu  *[[Remote Control (2021 novel)|Remote Control]].* Í che eñ ko‘takada eí comics kpai ífímu.

Ótakada ñw kí ko ché ye í  Africanfuturism kpaí Africanjujuism, kí chí yeokpalí todu úché aalí ye í Nigerian kpaí American kí gba. ìchẹ kì chẹ gɓà àwọɗù ŵèwè,i chẹnẹ ki ni award wewe, ami award lẹ chi Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Eisner Award ma'nyu World Fantasy Award. I chẹnẹ ku ma goru ẹnẹ ka efu ami third generation of Nigerian writers.

## Ogbegbele ma'nyu ọlayi nwu
Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor mábí efúewo  Cincinnati, Ohio, efù ọdọ  1974  Atá kpáì ìye nwu çhì ìgbọtì Igbo.  Má lotì úlẹ ojìánẹ Amẹnẹfù efù ọdọ 1969 náćhì ćhegbúlú    ámáá má neke dábìwá wì  Nigeria átòdú újá Cívíl Nigerian .  íćhe nì ọtákídá ọmánẹ ámẹnẹfú kgáì Nigeria.

Okorafor ćhi ẹnẹkẹ ẹtá efú ámọmá mẹlẹ kúmáćhe, i chi ọma ẹkẹta efu akwọra ọma m'ẹlẹ ma'nyu i gba'kpa efu Chicago, Illinois, tiko tiko ya loti Nigeria ki na mijọ kpai ami efu nwu. odu nwu eju'odudu chi Igbo ẹtẹ nwu chi"Iye che nyọ".

Adiko ẹgba ki ya loti Homewood-Flossmoor High School efu Flossmoor, Illinois, Okorafor chẹnẹ ku ma mọ ugbo du ka kini ya tichẹ ku ma dọ ki tennis ma'nyu track star ma'nyu ele gbọ gba efu egbaluka kpai sciences. Ina tene ki chi entomologist.

Ma ka kini ma li ọga ku ma dọ ki scoliosis ọla nwu ẹgba ki chi ọma ọdọ mi 13, akanya ki wa biẹnẹ  alu ki na chi ogwujo. Ẹgba ki chi ọdọ 19, i lefu spinal fusion surgery ki jẹ nwu nadala ; ẹnwu lẹ jẹnwu ki Okorafor ki chẹ nẹ ki kwi ago nya nẹ ma chukọlọ-n.

I kpoji ichikulu ọgba yi  University eyi Illinois ki di Urbana-Champaign, takini iwa ni ọtakada eyi ki nwọ tọgba eyi ki nẹ kwu bi efu journalism kwi Michigan State University ma'nyu  PhD efu English kwi University eyi Illinois, Chicago. i chẹnẹ ki che kpa efu ọdọ 2001 kwi Clarion Writers Workshop ki defu Lansing, Michigan. Abajọ-i i d'odo kpai am'ibo akwọra nwu yi efewo Arizona.

## Ukọlọ

### Ita'ki dẹ pẹ
Efu ọdọ 2001 Okorafor gbi Hurston-Wright literary award todu alọ ki kpa "Amphibious Green".  Ita kẹkẹ ki Okorafor kọ lẹ kpo dufu efu anthologies ma'nyu magazines, idagbẹ ki chi *[[Dark Matter (series)#Book II Contents|Dark Matter: Reading The Bones]]*, *[[Enkare Review]]*, *[[Strange Horizons]]*, *[[Moondance (magazine)|Moondance]]* magazine, ma'nyu *[[Writers of the Future]]* Alu oji mẹ gwẹjọ. Ikpa ami ọhiala nwu lẹ, ma dọ ki *[[Kabu Kabu]]*, a che ki dufu chi Prime Books efu ọdọ 2013. Efu nwu ini e ku ma dọ ki titular piece, ki onwu kpai Alan Dean Foster kọ,

Efu ochu ebie efu ọdọ 2017, Okorafor ka dufu le fu Twitter kakini *Ẹnẹ kiya ch'okpo ukwu*   HBO mu du ki chi eyi ku ma go kẹkẹ kẹkẹ lefu television , ma'nyu novelist kpai ẹnẹ ki chi *[[Game of Thrones]]* odu nwu chi George R. R. Martin i wa dama kpai to ku ma neke che  ufu onwu chi agbọji. Okorafor adefu ukọlọ lẹ alu ki ya na ch'onwu ana chẹnẹ ku ma nene adiko gbo gbo taki ma chu kọlọ lẹ kpa. ochu eju'odudu efu ọdọ 2021, ma kadu fu kakìnì  Tessa Thompson kpo dama ma nyuma.

Efu ochu ẹkẹlẹ efu ọdọ 2019, ma ka dufu kakini Okorafor adama kọ eyi ku ma du ña go Octavia Butler's *[[Wild Seed (novel)|Wild Seed]]* onwu kpai ẹnẹ ki ya chi fimu ku ma dọki Wanuri Kahiu nwi Amazon Prime Video ma'nyu ekagbọ kakini Viola Davis ache ki dufu.

Efu ochu eju'odudu ọdọ 2020, ma ka dufu kakini Okorafor abu ma kọ eyi ku ma du ña go eyi *Binti trilogy* nwi Hulu onwu kpai ẹnẹ kiya k'ọtakada ku ma dọ ki Stacy Osei-Kuffour.

### Ukọlọ kibo
Efu ọdọ 2005, Okorafor kọ ma'nyu di ukọlọ nwu eju'odudu dufu ku ma dọ ki, *Full Moon*. Buxville Theater Company ki defu lẹChicago bọ du dufu .

Efu ọdọ 2009, Okorafor mi ukọlọ nwu du nwu Science Fiction ma'nyu Fantasy Writers eyi America (SFWA) oka efu unyi Rare Books ma'nyu unyi eyi ọkwu ki di ugbo ọtakìda Northern Illinois University.

Okorafor chi Agbadu kiya k'ọtakada i chi Ẹnẹ ọkwu Ojima  ugbo Detcon1, adiko 2014 North American Science Fiction Convention; 

Ikọla ugbo TEDGlobal ujeju efu Arusha, Tanzania, efu ochu ẹjọ ọdọ 2017.

Efu ochu ẹgwa ọdọ 2017, Okorafor ka dufu lefu Twitter ka kini yana kọ l'ugbo ak'anya m'ẹta nwi Marvel's *[[Black Panther (Marvel Comics)|Black Panther]]*, i chanẹ kwi ugbo ki ẹnẹ kiya k'ọtakada Ta-Nehisi Coates tọnọ tanẹ. Ak'anya eju'odudu eyi *Black Panther: Onu ki kpoji ologbo, ma du dufu* efu ochu ẹgweji efu ọdọ 2017.

## Enwu ele Ojima
### Novel and Novellas

### Ach'anyi

### fiction kekele, memoir ma'nyu Novelette

### Eyi Kibọ
* 2005 – The Strange Horizons Reader's Choice Award for *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*

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

**Agbadufu**
* *[[Zahrah the Windseeker]]* (2005, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; paperback 2008, Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)—writing as Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
* *[[The Shadow Speaker]]* (2007, Hyperion/Disney)—writing as Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
* *[[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)
* *[[Ikenga (novel)|Ikenga]]* (2020, Viking/Penguin/PRH)
**[[Akata Woman]]* (2022, Viking/Penguin/PRH)

**Ogijo** 
* *[[Who Fears Death]]* (2010, DAW/Penguin)
* "Hello, Moto" (2011, Tor.com)
* "Moom!" short story in "AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers" (2012, Storytime)
* *[[Kabu Kabu]]* (2013, Prime Books)
* "It's War" short story in "Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History" (2014, Crossed Genres)
* *[[Lagoon (novel)|Lagoon]]* (2014, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.) (2015, Saga Press/Simon & Schuster)
* *[[The Book of Phoenix]]* (2015, DAW/Penguin/PRH) (prequel of *[[Who Fears Death]]*)
* *[[Binti (novel)|Binti]]* (2015, Tor.com)
* **' (2017, Tor.com)
***' (2018, Tor.com)
**Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected (TED Books)* (2019, TED/Simon & Schuster)
* "Sunrise" short story in *[[Africanfuturism: An Anthology]]* (2020, Brittle Paper)
**[[Remote Control (2021 novel)|Remote Control]]* (2021, Tor.com)
* *[[Noor (novel)|Noor]]* (2021, DAW/Penguin/PRH)
* *She Who Knows* trilogy (2024, DAW/Penguin/PRH) 

**Ach'anyi**
* *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)

## Selected filmography
* *Brave New Souls: Black Sci-Fi & Fantasy Writers of the 21st Century* (2013) – Herself

## Ẹtẹ nwu

## Ale t'ọdọda

*Nnedi Okorafor Home Page
*Africanfuturism Defined by Nnedi Okorafor
*Mikki Kendall, "A Nigerian Sorceress Makes Her Way", *[[Publishers Weekly]]*, April 12, 2010
*Nebula Awards Guest Blog: Is Africa Ready for Science Fiction by Nnedi Okorafor
*Review of ''Zahrah the Windseeker'' by Gary K. Wolfe
*"Stephen King's Super-Duper Magical Negroes" by Okorafor-Mbachu
*"From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7" (short story), *[[Clarkesworld Magazine]]*, May 2009
*Stories by Okorafor at AfricanWriter.com
*"If It Scares You, Write It: A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor" (interview), *Clarkesworld Magazine*, December 2009
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*2010 Audio Interview on the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast
*"Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa". Nnedi Okorafor at TEDGlobal 2017

Gbúgbe:1974 births
Gbúgbe:Living people
Gbúgbe:21st-century American novelists
Gbúgbe:21st-century American women writers
Gbúgbe:American children's writers
Gbúgbe:American comics creators
Gbúgbe:American fantasy writers
Gbúgbe:American people of Igbo descent
Gbúgbe:American science fiction writers
Gbúgbe:American women novelists
Gbúgbe:American women children's writers
Gbúgbe:American writers of African descent
Gbúgbe:African-American comics creators
Gbúgbe:Black speculative fiction authors
Gbúgbe:Female comics writers
Gbúgbe:Homewood-Flossmoor High School alumni
Gbúgbe:Hugo Award-winning writers
Gbúgbe:Igbo novelists
Gbúgbe:Igbo women writers
Gbúgbe:Marvel Comics writers
Gbúgbe:Michigan State University alumni
Gbúgbe:Nebula Award winners
Gbúgbe:Nigerian children's writers
Gbúgbe:Nigerian feminists
Gbúgbe:Nigerian fantasy writers
Gbúgbe:Nigerian science fiction writers
Gbúgbe:Nigerian speculative fiction writers
Gbúgbe:Nigerian women children's writers
Gbúgbe:Nigerian women writers
Gbúgbe:Nommo Award winners
Gbúgbe:Novelists from Ohio
Gbúgbe:People from Olympia Fields, Illinois
Gbúgbe:University of Illinois Chicago alumni
Gbúgbe:University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Gbúgbe:Women science fiction and fantasy writers
Gbúgbe:World Fantasy Award-winning writers
Gbúgbe:Writers from Cincinnati