Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
In post-apocalyptic Africa, the light-skinned Nuru enslaved the dark-skinned Okeke and were intent on killing all the Okeke. Below the Okeke were the mixed-race Ewu, often the product of Nuru soldiers raping Okeke women. The Great Book supported this world order. Onyesonwu’s Okeke mother, Najeeba, was violently raped by Nuru General Daib. Onyesonwu is on a quest to kill her father as foretold in the prophecy.
Onye leaves her village, Jwahir, to travel to her father’s village, Dufar. She travels with her lover, Mwita, the three women who were in her genital mutilation group, Luyu, Binta, and Diti, and another male, Fanasi.
Technology: Capture stations collect water from the air in sufficient quantities for drinking, cooking, and bathing. They could build rock fires for cooking and heating. They had devices that could keep time, work like a GPS, play video disks, and read books.
Magic, Juju. Onye could start rock fires, become ignorable (invisible), shapeshift into a vulture, and visit the wilderness. Her father poisoned her by writing on her palm, but she was saved when other sorcerers wrote counter spells. The leader of the Red People controlled the sandstorm.
As part of her sorceress training, Oyne learned the four Mystic Points. The Uwa Point represents the physical world, the body, Change, death, life, and connection. The Mmuo Point is the wilderness (a mystical space beyond the physical world). The Alusi point represents forces, deities, and spirits. The Okike Point represents the Creator.
During her odyssey, Onye encounters the Red People who live inside a sandstorm, a green jungle, nothing like the desert, and a fire lizard, kponyungo (the spirit of her mother).
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