A review by carolynf
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

4.0

A great young adult coming of age story about a twelve-year old witch in Nigeria. Sunny is ostracized from her peers because she lived in the US until the age of nine, and because she is albino. But she learns that she has an aptitude for magic, and works with her new friends to prevent the end of the world. This book is a welcome change from the usual northern European witchery in magic books - instead we have juju, leopard people, masquerades, tungwa, chittim...