Ikenga.
Written by Nnedi Okorafor.
Viking, 2020.
Fiction.
In southeastern Nigeria, twelve-year-old Mnamdi is
determined to avenge his police chief father, who was murdered while trying to
rid the town of criminals, but Nnamdi feels powerless until he receives a
magical object which gives him superpowers.
There is little to no separation of the natural and
supernatural – which, in this book, are completely Western cultural impositions
on this world. On this culture. Reading – understanding and absorbing – takes a
bit as you need to decouple any Western worldviews about nature and
supernatural, to understand.
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