Nnedi Okorafor
1) Ikenga
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In southeastern Nigeria, twelve-year-old Mnamdi is determined to avenge his police chief father, who was murdered while triyng to rid the town of criminals, but Nnamdi feels powerless until he receives a magical object which gives him superpowers.
2) Noor
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1898
Language
English
Formats
Description
When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.
3) Binti
Author
Series
Binti volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
©2015.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
90 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter...
Author
Publisher
Harry N Abrams
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
vi, 240 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it. This searing graphic-novel...
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shuri, princess of Wakanda, has one of the bravest souls and most brilliant minds in the whole Marvel-Verse — and these are the tales that prove it! Whether she’s wearing the cowl of the Black Panther to take on A.I.M. and prove her mettle to a Wakandan challenger, or pitting her wits against the mutant Forge in a high-tech race, Shuri knows how to get the job done — and have fun. That’s why she is her brother T’Challa’s most dependable...