time. Maybe not. What I know I want is to face the history of this leg of literature rather than put it aside or bury it. If this is how some of the great minds of speculative fiction felt, then let's deal with that ... as opposed to never mention it or explain it away. Awards Novel and Novellas Comics Short fiction, memoir and Novelette Other Awards 2005 – The Strange Horizons Reader's Choice Award for Stephen King's Super-Duper Magical Negroes 2007–2008 – Macmillan Writers' Prize for Africa for Long Juju Man 2008 – Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa for Zahrah the Windseeker 2012 – Black Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature (Fiction) for Zahrah the Windseeker 2015 – African Literary Person of the Year from Brittle Paper 2016 – Children's Africana Book Award for Best Book for Young Readers for Chicken in the Kitchen Mathical Honors for Binti Bibliography Children Long Juju Man (2009, Macmillan Africa) Iridessa and the Secret of the Never Mine (2012, Disney Books) Chicken in the Kitchen (2020, Lantana publishing) Young adult Zahrah the Windseeker (2005, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; paperback 2008, Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)—writing as Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu The Shadow Speaker (2007, Hyperion/Disney)—writing as Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu Akata Witch (2011, Viking/Penguin) (published as What Sunny Saw in the Flames in Nigeria and the UK by Cassava Republic Press) Akata Warrior (2017, Viking/Penguin/PRH) (published as Sunny and the Mysteries of Osisi in Nigeria and the UK by Cassava Republic Press) Ikenga (2020, Viking/Penguin) Akata Woman (2022, Viking/Penguin) Adult Who Fears Death (2010, DAW/Penguin) "Hello, Moto" (2011, Tor.com) "Moom!" short story in "AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers" (2012, Storytime) Kabu Kabu (2013, Prime Books) "It's War" short story in "Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History" (2014, Crossed Genres) Lagoon (2014, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.) (2015, Saga Press/Simon & Schuster) The Book of Phoenix (2015, DAW/Penguin/PRH) (prequel of Who Fears Death) Binti (2015, Tor.com) Binti: Home (2017, Tor.com) Binti: The Night Masquerade (2018, Tor.com) Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected (TED Books) (2019, Simon & Schuster/ TED) "Sunrise" short story in Africanfuturism: An Anthology (2020, Brittle Paper)Remote Control (2021, Tor.com) Noor (2021, DAW/Penguin/PRH) She Who Knows trilogy (2024, DAW) Comics Black Panther: Long Live the King (2017, Marvel) LaGuardia (2018, Dark Horse) Shuri (2018, Marvel) Wakanda Forever (2018, Marvel) Antar: the Black Knight (2018, IDW/Mirage Films) Shuri: Wakanda Forever