![]() The book meanders a bit before revealing its plot - Sunny and her friends have to defeat a masked spirit, named Ewensku, who intends to usher in the apocalypse - but the action sequences are enthralling. ![]() ![]() As her mentor says, “You’re not the best or smartest of your age mates, but you are … interesting.” (“Akata” is a word Nigerians and other West Africans use, sometimes disparagingly, for African-Americans.) What makes her an irresistible character is that she’s not just pure of heart, she’s also a fiercely protective sister and a palpably real teenager. Sunny has had to deal with bigots for years because she’s an albino, and because she was born in America. “Akata Warrior,” the long-awaited sequel to Okorafor’s “Akata Witch,” is the story of Sunny Nwazue, a 13-year-old Nigerian girl who recently came into mystical powers, which she must master but never reveal to her family. ![]() Okorafor invents wild, fantastical creatures and worlds, but she’s got an even rarer gift, too: She can describe the effect of using magic - the emotional and physiological repercussions of it - so viscerally, it’s as if it were a fever we’d contracted ourselves. ![]()
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