![]() ![]() That always felt uncomfortable and unnatural to me.” I've never had a time where I tried to be one thing or the other. … It's something that I've been open with myself about since I was young. ![]() So that's how I view my cultural identity. ![]() “And it's one word, so it can't be separated. If you ask her, though, she has her own preference for describing her cultural identity: Naijamerican. How being a bridge between cultures inspires Okorafor’s novelsĪ quick Google search for Nnedi Okorafor reveals that she is a Nigerian American writer. 16, 2021) published within two months of each other. 18), which made the New York Times bestseller list, and “Noor” (Nov. Most recently, her novels “Akata Woman” (Jan. Now 47, she has published a couple dozen novels, short stories and comics, including the Binti trilogy and the Nsibidi Scripts series, as well as several Marvel comics. “By the next semester, I was writing my first novel,” she said. ![]() Okorafor went on to earn master’s degrees in journalism and literature, as well as a Ph.D. “The only way that I kind of saved myself, I just started writing these stories to myself.” That's what I lost, but what I gained was I was writing these stories,” she said. “That quickness and ease of motion that I had was lost. ![]()
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