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https://thebrownbookshelf.com/2008/02/13/nnedi-okorafor-mbachu/

http://nnedi.com/books/online_fiction.html

https://www.tor.com/2010/08/25/an-interview-with-nnedi-okorafor/

http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/okorafor_nnedi

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/books/ya-fantasy-diverse-akata-warrior.html

Influences/Themes: Her stories place black girls in important roles that are usually given to white characters.

Background: From her interest in insects, she desired to be an entomologist.

https://www.theroot.com/nnedi-okorafor-is-putting-africans-at-the-center-of-sci-1790862186

Influences/Themes: Okorafor noticed how the fantasy and science fiction genre contain little diversity, and that was her motivation for writing books of these genres set in Africa. She wanted to include more people of color and create stories with Africa as the setting because so few stories were set there. She wrote her first story as a college sophomore and made the setting of her story Nigeria.

Background: Her parents traveled to America to go to school, but they could not return to Nigeria because of the Nigerian Civil War.