Binti: The Complete Trilogy

by Nnedi Okorafor

His anger was rightful, but all that he said was from what he didn’t truly know.

You see, there’s something that happens to a child of the soil when she leaves her soil. It’s a death, then a painful rebirth . . . but first you have to walk around the new world as a sort of ghost.

Amongst the Himba, you “were what you knew you were once you knew what you were and that was that”,

The three days passed, as time always does when you are alive, whether happy or tortured.