Jaa was being attacked by him and she started talking to him. He was turned into one when he was a child. He was eventually buried without his head. All in front of his oldest child, Ejii, and oldest son, Fadio (Ejii's half-brother). Then she sliced his head off, and it rolled into a meat-eating plant which ate it. One day, Jaa came to Kwamfa and confronted the man and accused him of using her name in vain and doing things that she would never agree to do. He apparently used that as an excuse to carry out his evil deeds.

He seated himself chief in, quote, “.the name of our nurturing queen, Sarauniya Jaa!”. When Jaa came to Kwamfa, the chief came along as an apprentice. He is said that he is of the fierce Woddabe tribe. When she speaks a red flower always accompanies her words. She witnessed the Great Change while a captive of a tribe who claimed her to be their queen. She is not an actual queen, but is treated like one. Ejimafor Ugabe - The 14-year-old daughter of the former Kwamfa Chief and one of the trusted advisers of the Sarauniya Jaa, the Red Queen.The whole world is falling apart due to nuclear fallout in “the early twenty-first century”. Her father was once the hated dictator-like chief. She lives in the Nigerian village of Kwàmfa. Plot Įjimafor 'Ejii' Ugabe is a fourteen-year-old Muslim half- Wodaabe, half- Igbo girl. It was a Booksense Pick for Winter 2007/2008, a Tiptree Honor Book, a finalist for the Essence Magazine Literary Award, the Andre Norton Award and the Golden Duck Award and an NAACP Image Award nominee. Visit our sister site Curled Up With a Good Book (Shadow Speaker is a young adult, first-person novel by Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor, which takes place in the year 2070. Myself totally absorbed in this 352-page long novel.įor grown-up fiction, nonfiction and speculative fiction book reviews, Is certainly appropriate for youth ages 12 and up however, as an adult I found This is a futuristic tale with fantasy and magic tossed in with alternate worlds, a perfect setting for this exciting adventure filled with unique creatures and humanoids with strange yet useful gifts. Ejii must overcome a difficult memory – the beheading of her father – and learn to forgive his murderer if she is to prevent war, Ejii must also find peace in her heart. The lead character is a fourteen-year-old girl who goes by the name Ejii. This stress and fear is leading toward unsettling events and may even lead to war. In some places revered, in other areas despised and feared. Mutant humans begin appearing with magical skills and are Unfortunately, Earth’s current technology is poisonous to one area known as the Ginen.

Alternate worlds are merging and fraying the fabric that separates them. On a future Earth after a great war or a great bomb, when magic returns to the planet… but something else does, too.

The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor