Over the weeks, Sankofa learned that she couldn’t drive in vehicles or touch digital windows or mobile phones, she couldn’t even touch jelli tellis because something about her killed technology. As she learns to control the green light inside her, the power that kills everything in its path, Sankofa learns to cope with the events that befell her and accepts that solitude is her best option. On the other, her power is a defense mechanism that sometimes obliterates people because they threaten her. On one hand, Sankofa is an angel that takes away the pain of those on the edge of death due to incurable illnesses.

Furthermore, there is a smart exploration on the complex nature of death here. Sankofa’s journey in search of her box is also a journey of self-discovery in which she’s exposed to the pain of her past as well as the ugliness of the world. Okorafor is a great storyteller with a knack for bringing complex feelings to the page in ways that make them simultaneously unique and universal. Remote Control is a coming-of-age narrative that explores solitude and grief. With her new power and a fox following her, Sankofa begins a journey in search of her box and herself, and Death comes with her. Fatima, the sweet, sick girl is replaced by Sankofa, the adopted daughter of Death. She emerges from that with no recollection of her name and with the power to kill.

The green that fell from the sky and the strange seed in the box gave Fatima something more powerful than a toy and, in the aftermath of the box’s disappearance, she loses herself and her family. The box becomes Fatima’s most beloved possession, and then her father sells it and, just like that, her box is gone. A strange green light falls on her town, and then the earth gifts her a box with a strange seed inside it. One day, something other than words comes from the sky. The stars often look like words to her, so she writes them on the dirt under the tree. Easy to read, emotionally gritty, and wildly imaginative, this is a short novel that takes readers into that wonderful place in fiction where genres collide and great character development leads to unforgettable protagonists.įatima spends her days up in a tree, looking at the sky and battling bouts of malaria.

Nnedi Okorafor’s Remote Control is a dark fantasy with Africanfuturistic elements that explores life, death, and loneliness while chronicling a few years in the early life of young girl who becomes the Angel of Death.

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