Thicker than the first volume, we dive ever deeper into her and her world and get to the root of the Matter of Binti and what her story in these volumes is shaping up to be. Binti’s Himba’s status and her relationship to the Khoush are absolutely essential to understanding the plot, as Binti’s travels are interrupted by a sudden and shocking alien attack, aliens with good reason to hate the Khoush.īinti: Home tells of the return to her home and people, facing the music of having made her unwelcome choice to go to the University. We get some detail on her Himba people origin, how she sits within that culture, and how that culture interacts with its more powerful neigbor, the spacefaring Khoush. Binti’s story is told in Okorafor’s Binti, Binti: Home and the finale of the trilogy, Binti: Masquerade.īinti, the first novella, tells of Binti’s journey to Oomza University, and the cataclysmic encounter she has on the way there, an encounter that changes her forever, and her choices ultimately drive the second two volumes. Binti’s like that, though, breaking norms and boundaries as she finds her way to the University, back home, and what happens thereafter. Binti’s desire to go the finest University in the galaxy breaks all sorts of norms. Binti is a prodigy among her people, the Himba, in a mid-future world constructed by author Nnedi Okorafor.
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