I have the honor to know a gifted and lovely author Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu. Nnedi and I met a little over three years ago at a convention for young sci-fi writers in Naperville, IL. I was first impressed by this woman's beautiful statuesque, much like a Nigerian queen. And when she put her hand out to greet me she greeted me with a smile that would light up a room! It was my pleasure to be able to have Nnedi come and read to the children's group for two consecutive years and I'm happy to see that she also attended this past year and lead some Q&A panels. She has several books that have been mentioned for awards; the most popular being The Shadow Speaker with awards being:
An NAACP Image Award NomineeA Tiptree Honor BookA Winter 2007/2008 Booksense Pick Finalist for the Essence Literary AwardFinalist for the Andre Norton AwardFinalist for The Golden Duck Award
Nnedi's first book, Zahrah the Windseeker is the story of a young girl growing up trying to find herself and is just beautiful! Awards for for Zahrah are:
Shortlisted for the Parallax, Kindred, and Locus Awards. Currently up for the 2008 Teen Book Award
For more information on my good friend Nnedi, please visit her website The Wahala Zone
Cheers!
Visit my website which I think Zahrah would enjoy at bananastoyou.com. Thank you!
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