Unexpected science fiction of the best kind. I'm looking forward already to the sequel to come next year. And, also, to anything else Okorafor might choose to publish.Personal copy
A young woman of the Himba people of Namibia becomes the first person from her culture to be accepted at a prestigious off-world university. The story starts as if it is going to use a Science Fiction trope as a metaphor for a woman leaving Africa to pursue an education in the West and struggling wi...
Binti starts off as a fairly interesting look at a girl leaving home for the first time with the possibility of becoming an outcast since her family was against her going. Admittedly, there was some strangeness with “mathematical currents” that I wasn’t quite sure what to make of. I took it to be so...
Sixteen-year-old Binti is the first of the Himba people ever to be accepted to Oomza University. She'll be a minority there in another way as well – only 5% of the university's population is human. As terrifying as it is, leaving her tribe behind, Binti quickly finds friends among the humans traveli...
Binti is a 16 year old girl from Africa, who is leaving her tribe to study at Oomza Uni, a university in space. On her way to the university, her spaceship gets attacked by another alien species and things will never be the same again for Binti. It took me about an hour to read Binti and a lot of ...
As is her usual method, Nnedi Okorafor mixes fantasy and science fiction here, in a story of mathematical mysticism, strong cultural ties, and intercultural communication. The main character Binti is a Himba, a (genuine) people of the Namib desert who (in this story) have developed mathematics to a ...
I've been eager to read this novella since I first heard about it. There was something about the cover, the title, and the suggested culture of the story that appealed to me. I hadn't read anything by Okorofor, or even heard of her, before I heard about this book, but everything else set my expectat...
I received this in a Tor giveaway. Thank you!I wish I was smarter so I could write a better review of this book. Okorafor always makes me particularly aware that I lack of the vocabulary to discuss the themes relating to colonialism and race, and so I tend to sit back in wonder.As it was, I saw some...
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