“I cannot live without books.” ― Thomas Jefferson Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” ― Groucho Marx “When I have a little money, I buy books and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” ― Erasmus “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” ― Groucho Marx “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. –Paul Sweeney If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. –Haruki MurakamiĪ book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it. –Edward P. We read to know we are not alone – CS LewisĪ book is a dream that you hold in your hand. –Neil Gaiman Retired from a high-tech career, I volunteer for the African Library Project, a nonprofit devoted to building libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

I’m a voracious reader and life-long patron of libraries and bookstores, living in a house of apocalyptic book spillage. Books are my entertainment, education, and exposure to the myriad forms of human experience. The book will be published on January 19th, 2021.

Thank you to Macmillan-Tor/Forge and NetGalley for providing an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. I enjoyed the writing and the characters and the imagery of a blended future - but I did find the plot a little weak. Africanjujuism is a subcategory of fantasy that respectfully acknowledges the seamless blend of true existing African spiritualities and cosmologies with the imaginative.” African futurism is a sub-category of science fiction. I like her definition: “I am an African futurist and an African jujuist. Okarafor labels her work a combination of “African Futurism” and “African Jujuism” - terms she coined - to reflect its African-centricity. This is not your typical, action-oriented, one man against a giant, evil machine. The “bad guy” is LifeGen - a “big American corporation that’s probably going to eventually destroy the world.” But Sankofa is a child, and we watch as she absorbs information and tries to understand what has happened to her, why, and what she can possibly do with it. Before she has any clue as to what is happening, she has been “gifted” with a terrible power which continues to bring tragedy even as she struggles to control it.Ī combination of myth, juju, and technology populate this picture of future Ghana. Sankofa is only five when her favorite tree pushes up a strange seed after a meteor shower brought sparkling bits of green to the Earth. A coming-of-age story set in a future Northern Ghana.

Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor