The Shadow Speaker

The Shadow Speaker
Author Nnedi Okorafor
Genre Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher Hyperion Book (Children's Books)
Publication date
October 2, 2007
Media type Book
Pages 352
ISBN 1-4231-0033-6
OCLC 124156424
LC Class PZ7.O4157 Sh 2007

The Shadow Speaker (Sun/Hyperion 2007), by Nnedi Okorafor, is a young adult, first-person novel that takes place in the year 2070. The Shadow Speaker was a Booksense Pick for Winter 2007/2008, a Tiptree Honor Book, a finalist for the Essence Magazine Literary Award, the Andre Norton Award and the Golden Duck Award and an NAACP Image Award nominee.

Plot

Ejimafor "Ejii" Ugabe is a fourteen-year-old Muslim half Wodaabe half Igbo girl. She lives in the Nigerien village of Kwàmfa. Her father was once the hated dictator-like chief. She lives in the year 2070. The whole world is falling apart after a nuclear fall out in, quote, “the early twenty-first century”.

Characters

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Notable events

Religion

The author uses many references to religion. She uses the Many Minor Signs of the Apocalypse said in the Quran, such as guns not being available, a green haze that smells like flowers, among others.

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