There are a lot of different perspectives in literature. My favorite books are sci-fi but even within a genre like that there are so many different viewpoints. I’ve realized in recent years that I was confined to a very small scope of even just sci-fi and certainly of fiction as a whole.

The books of Nnedi Okorafor are just one small expansion of my perspective, but boy am I happy to have found it.

Who Fears Death is hard to read at times; it took me far longer to finish than most other books of similar length. I found myself needing to sit with things for a little bit and take breaks. There’s not really a huge detailed world defined for the reader, but what is there is is so narratively rich that you can’t help but feel a part the world the characters walk through.

To find and embrace such a different perspective is really rewarding and I hope everyone tries to do the same. I know I’m going to read every word Okorafor has written and if you want to see what life is like outside the bubble of white euro-centrism, you should too.