Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts #1)

by Nnedi Okorafor

“Leopard People are different. The only way you can earn chittim is by learning. The more you learn, the more chittim you earn. Knowledge is the center of all things.

“People are too focused on money. It’s supposed to be a tool, not the prize to be won.”

We Leopard folk are nothing like this. 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.

I can tell you from personal experience, to be a young black man in America with a hatred for authority is a recipe for disaster.

There are more valuable things in life than safety and comfort. Learn. You owe it to yourself.

“They don’t teach them to understand others, they teach them to expect others to understand them,” he said in English. He humphed and said, “Americans.”