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The Black Pages

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The Black Pages

By: Nnedi Okorafor
Narrated by: Naomi Ackie
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By fate and fire, a being four millennia old is reborn in Mali in a short story of contemporary African life and ancient secrets by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Binti trilogy.

Issaka has returned home to Timbouctou and a devastating al-Qaeda raid. His only hope for survival is Faro, a stunning, blue-beaded supernatural entity who rises free from the flames of her imprisoning book as it burns. Compelled to follow Faro, Issaka is opening his eyes to their shared history and the ancestral wisdom of his own past.

Nnedi Okorafor’s The Black Pages is part of Black Stars, a multi-dimensional collection of speculative fiction from Black authors. Each story is a world much like our own. Read or listen to them in a single sitting.

©2021 by Nnedi Okorafor. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Action & Adventure Dark Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Magic African Fantasy
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This story speaks of a fear of the near future of Africa and also the courage of the African's who carry the will of the ancestors who have come, lived and left but remain watching over their descendants and the courage they instill in us to to pass the torch to the next generations and preserve our knoeledege and wisdom.
The distracttive power that is seeping in current Africa couldn't have been so well articulated, it reeks with malice and bears and ugly blade that I will be cut off ans buried before its too late.
I have never loved a book like this. so short yet so full of every bit of word that needed to be said.
Thank you.

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this story deserves a whole book dedicated to it. I was left wanting more.

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