Nnedi Okorafor

Home will never be the same once you know what you are.

We embrace those things that make us unique or odd. For only in these things can we locate and then develop our most individual abilities.

We prefer to explore the universe by traveling inward, as opposed to outward.

Everyone in the dining hall was dead. At least one hundred people. I had a feeling everyone on the ship was dead.

“I am Binti Ekeopara Zuzu Dambu Kaipka of Namib,” I whispered.

They say that when faced with a fight you cannot win, you can never predict what you will do next. But I’d always known I’d fight until I was killed.

I’d like to thank my daughter, Anyaugo, for essentially coming up with the plot of this novella. When you get stuck, ask a plucky imaginative eleven-year-old what happens next in the story; you’ll be unstuck in no time.