anisa

“Hausa, Urdu, Yoruba, Arabic, Efik, German, Igbo, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sanskrit, even one written in a language Chichi called Nsibidi. “Can you read N—”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“that night filling potholes along one of the smaller village roads. They’d used a dirt moving and packing juju that Anatov had taught them that very night. For days, Sunny was digging muck from beneath her nails and sweeping dirt from her bedroom.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Warrior

“nights were spent “learning by experience.” Leopard education did not have any vacations or breaks aside from certain religious ones like Eid Al-Fitr, Eid Al-Adha, Christmas, and Easter. For Eid Al-Fitr, while Lamb school was on break, Anatov had all four of them volunteer at a local Muslim orphanage and then work later”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Warrior

“Monkeys. From a Costa Rican island called Tortuga in the southern part of the Gulf of Nicoya,”
― Carrie Cross, Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of the Island Idol