'Okorafor's imagination is stunning.' - The New York Times Book Review 'Jam-packed with mythological wonders.' -Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series Nnedi Okorafor's work is wonderful!' -Diana Wynne Jones, award-winning author of The Chronicles of Chrestomanci 'Highly original stuff, episode after amazing episode, full of color, life, and death. 'I always loved science fiction, but I didn’t feel I was part of it-until I read first Octavia Butler, and now Nnedi Okorafor.' -Whoopi Goldberg “The most imaginative, gripping, enchanting fantasy novels I have ever read!” -Laurie Halse Anderson, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Speak Le Guin, award-winning author of A Wizard of Earthsea 'There’s more imagination on a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics.' -Ursula K. Her writing has been called “stunning” by The New York Times and her fans include Neil Gaiman, Rick Riordan, John Green, Ursula K. World Fantasy Award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor blends magic and adventure to create a lush world. Will their training be enough to help them combat a threat whose powers greatly outnumber theirs? But as she’s finding her footing, Sunny and her friends are asked by the magical authorities to help track down a career criminal who knows magic, too. Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. And then she discovers something amazing-she is a 'free agent' with latent magical power. There seems to be no place where she fits in. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer.

Her features are West African, but she's albino. Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City.

Perfect for fans of Children of Blood and Bone! Her characters take your heart and squeeze it her worlds open your mind to new things.' - Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book and American GodsĪffectionately dubbed 'the Nigerian Harry Potter,' Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world. 'Nnedi Okorafor writes glorious futures and fabulous fantasies.

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor