AFROTOPIA Book Club: Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Join us for AFROTOPIA Book Club as we journey into Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor. The visionary tale is set in a post-apocalyptic Africa where magic, destiny, and resistance intertwine.
Born into violence and prophecy, Onyesonwu—whose name means “Who Fears Death?”—embarks on a transformative quest to rewrite the Great Book and end a genocidal legacy encoded in sacred text. Blending African spiritual cosmologies, African futurism, and radical feminist power, Okorafor crafts a narrative that is both brutal and luminous. This is a story about surviving trauma, confronting inherited systems of harm, and claiming authorship over one’s future.
Together, we will explore how Who Fears Death invites us to consider:
What does it mean to challenge destiny when it is written into law, scripture, and story?
How do we transmute grief and violence into collective liberation?
What role do spiritual technologies and ancestral memory play in shaping new worlds?
Can rewriting the narrative become an act of freedom?
Come prepared to discuss power, pleasure, prophecy, and the courage required to imagine a future beyond oppression. This conversation will be rich, layered, and unapologetically expansive.
Presented by The Afrofuture Strategies Institute. www.afrofuturestrategies.com