![]() ![]() ![]() But her talents have also won her a place at the famous Oomza University, located somewhere far away from Earth.īinti desperately wants to go to Oomza Uni. Among her own people, Bintis talents make her a masterful harmonizer and maker of astrolabes (computer-like devices that are a specialty among the Himba). It also plunges you into the mind and life of Binti, a Himba girl, raised in the African desert, who has a singular talent for advanced mathematics. Nnedi Okorafors science fiction novella Binti is a suspenseful and exhilarating read that plunges you headlong into a future world where space ships are living creatures, and humanity is just one of many space-faring civilizations. Review #2 Binti audiobook in series Binti ![]() A beautiful work that I cannot help but hope will open doors for more non-immigrant African American fantasy and SciFi authors, in time. And then facing the terror, the isolation, and the possibilities alone. Though Binti’s experiences are inspired by continental African and Arab peoples and places, they are strongly reminiscent of Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis (now Lilith’s Brood) series: breaking away from home and tradition because someone must venture out, to give everyone else a better chance to survive. It feels wonderful, as a reader, to be able to trust an author, suspend disbelief and be able to say, “Yes! That is just what such an experience feels like! Now, where does it lead, and what does it mean?” without remaining braced for stereotyping, misrepresentation, and the culturally-ingrained literary gut-punches that ethnic minority bibliophiles have to learn to live with. ![]() Okorafor’s Binti allows readers a chance to relax into scifi’s wonderful worlds of “What if?” without haviing to constantly translate and ignore hostile cross-cultural assumptions and metaphors. ![]()
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