Arlakan asked this question about
Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1):
About the title of this book:
The definition of Akata and how offensive it could be. Essentially it could be similar to having students in Nigeria reading a book titled “(The N Word) Witch”. Now not all dialects/translations carry that negative of a connotation, but if you do a quick google search the comparison of the word Akata to the N word is pretty frequent.
Thoughts????
Summer (speaking_bookish)
This is touched upon specifically in the book.
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