As Sunny reads and learns about her magical abilities, so too does the reader of Akata Witch. This book is featured throughout Akata Witch.

The book was called, Fast Facts For Free Agents written by Isong Abong Effiong Isong. One amazing element of the book that stood out me was the use of text from a book within the actual novel. Sunny and her friends, and coven members, Chic hi, Orlu and Sasha are tasked with capturing, career criminal and rogue witch, the Black Hat Otokoto. Sunny then, discovers she is a free agent, a witch with magical powers, though not from fully engaged magical family.Īs Sunny learns about her abilities she is recruited to be a member of a quartet of magic students, an Oha Coven. Yet she can’t go out in the sun to play football with her brothers because of her skin condition. I was hooked on this book from the very first page.Īkata Witch is the story of 12 year old Sunny, she was born in America and lives in Nigeria. And I jumped at the change to read it early this year because on Twitter, the author, Nnedi Okorafor announced that book two in the series, Akata Warriorwill be published in November 2017.

The Bookophilia gift certificate was my final gift in my Christmas 2016 office pixie/Secret Santa activity.Īkata Witch was on my tbr list for well over a year before I finally got a copy.

Actually, I selected the book and it was covered by a store gift certificate. I bought Akata Witch in January 2017, locally at Bookophilia. For only in these things can we locate and then develop our most individual abilities.” “We embrace those things that make us unique or odd.

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