 First edition | |
| Author | Nnedi Okorafor |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Yetide Badaki |
| Illustrator | Designed by Jim Hoover |
| Cover artist | Greg Ruth |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Nsibidi Scripts #2 |
| Genre | Young adult,fantasy |
| Set in | Aba, Nigeria |
| Publisher | Viking Books |
Publication date | October 3, 2017 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print, ebook, audiobook, kindle, audible |
| Pages | 477 pp |
| Awards |
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| ISBN | 9780670785612 (hardcover 1st ed.) |
| OCLC | 973806811 |
| 813.6 | |
| LC Class | PZ7.O4157 Ah 2017 |
| Preceded by | Akata Witch |
| Followed by | Akata Woman |
Akata Warrior (retitledSunny and the Mystery of Osisi in Nigeria and the UK) is a 2017young adultfantasy novel byNigerian American writerNnedi Okorafor.[1] It is a sequel toAkata Witch (2011) and the second book in herTheNsibidi Scripts series; it's followed byAkata Woman (2022).[2] It won the inauguralLodestar Award in 2018[3] as well as the 2018Locus Award for Best Young Adult Novel.[4]
Set a year after the events of the first book, it follows Sunny Nwazue, an American-bornNigerian albino girl living in Aba who becomes a member of the secret Leopard society.
Sunny Nwazue has recurring vision of a burning city and while picking up tainted pepper, she is given a comb by Mami Wata.
She disobeys the Leopard rules, and with assistance of Chichi, uses a juju to scare the members of the cult that haunts Chukwu in the university and is sent to the Obi Library basement to face a djinn whom she defeats and reunites with her friends and parents. Then, her father threatens to disown her.
Her spirit face Anyanwu is separated from her after an attack fromEkwensu, who emerges again. Sunny and her friends Orlu, Chichi, and Sasha visit Bola, where she tells Sunny to go to Lagos to meet Udide, who will weave a flying grasscutter to take them to Osisi.
Through the help of Chukwu, they head to Lagos under the disguise of a road trip and meet Udide who weaves a flying grasscutter in exchange for Sunny's story.
After a series of events, Chukwu sees the grasscutter and they escape before the council car comes to pick them.
In Osisi, they defeat Ekwensu to avert an apocalypse and return home to face the council officials, who forgives them. The novel ends with Sunny, Chichi, and Sasha attending the Zuma Rock Festival.
The book received several positive reception[6] with most critics praising Okorafor's characters and writings.[7]
A review by theLocus Magazine called it an epic sequel.[8]Brittle Paper praised the novel and also its cover.[9]
The sequel toAkata Warrior isAkata Woman, which was released on January 18, 2022.[12][13]