Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts #1)

by Nnedi Okorafor

You can cheat, lie, steal, kill, be dumb as a rock, but if you can brag about money and having lots of things and your bragging is true, that bypasses everything. Money and material things make you king or queen of the Lamb world. You can do no wrong, you can do anything.

“Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.

“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.”