Nnedi Okorafor: Home

Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti - Home, begins less than a year after the first Binti novella. Binti and her Meduse companion Okwe have both been studying at the great Oomza University, Binti in mathematics and Okwe in weapons. But Binti becomes aware if a need drawing her home, and so, with Okwe at her side, she makes the return journey to Earth.

If the first Binti story was about finding communication and common ground with the other and the enemy, then this second story is about the consequences to those who try to make such contacts and keep them open. It is about the effects that going beyond the narrow confines of expectation and tradition has on the family, the community, the network of relationships around one. It is about being open to change and new ideas, new ways of being, of becoming.

Binti’s journey continues, as she becomes more apart from the people of her childhood, and encompasses more of who she can be.