Nnedi okorafor biography of mahatma

Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.

Working name of US academic and author Nnedimma Okorafor-Mbachu (1974-    ), whose Igbo parents had emigrated to America in 1969 but from her early childhood often returned with her to Nigeria, a complex upbringing reflected throughout her writing career; she began to publish work of genre interest with "The Palm Tree Bandit", in Strange Horizons for 11 December 2000.

From the first, her work has interwoven traditional sf topoi with African story-modes, in what might be described as a series of explorations in lateral Equipoise, where genres do not mate within a culture, but across borders.

Her various presentations of dichotomies between the impersonal Technologies that have driven the Industrial Revolutions of the West, and a (here perhaps somewhat mysticated) organic rapport between Homo sapiens and the sentient world characteristic of non-Western cultural narratives, have been vigorously laid down.

Her first