Nnedi Okorafor, PhD

Periwinkle the Oriental shorthair cat, and Neptune, the sphinx cat sunbathing and judging from the cat tree

I was on the phone talking about something uncomfortable, wringing my hands and laughing nervously, etc. I glanced up and saw these guys totally judging, 🤭.

Edikaikong soup, fried plantain and a steak of catfish

All I need right now. 😋 Leave me alone for the next hour.

Edikaikong soup, fried plantain and a steak of catfish.

🤭

Imagine what it was like to *write* him.

@nnedi.bsky.social I finally have time to dive into Onyesonwu's world and I want to fight Aro every time I read his name 🤬🤬 #WhoFearsDeath 📖

I understand.

What I went through was surreal and I don't recommend it, 😬! But if you have no choice (as I'm sure you realized when you did your biometrics), then do what you must do.

The fact that I posted this only 3 days ago in not lost on me.

so yeah, if it's the casino (which i think it is, since it was in that direction), it's not visually having the effect they may want for many who are a few miles away.

yeah, for the record: i have seen it for THREE nights. not ONCE has it looked like the photo. the high def or whatever the AI does to my photos did that. my daughter was with me and can vouch for the fact that it did NOT look like that with the naked eye.

I lost someone VERY close to me in the middle of this “battle”. To this day, I am glad I didn’t cut off contact. This is why this will never be an option for me.

I lost someone VERY close to me in the middle of this “battle”. To this day, I am glad I didn’t cut off contact. This is why this will never be an option for me.

AWFUL!!!!!!!

I’m tired!!!!

Cannot afford to be tired right now!!!!

If I could only publicly explain to you how complex this is. 😮‍💨 Maybe one day, I will. Not today. It’s so fucking bizarre and disturbing and I’ve been grappling with it in a terrible way since 2016, ten years of this shit tearing at the foundation of my family. Ten goddamn years.

Inhale. Exhale.

I’m thinking about people I love who support Trump (the people closest to me in the world) and therefore what’s going on. All I can scream is 🤬. The last 24 hours, I’ve been holding myself back from them.

☹️ It’s awful.

🤭, your response is way too similar to what went through my mind.

Phoenix, lol.
And I agree!

A palm tree and building with a blue laser behind it or...aliens, lol.

The past 3 days, I've been seeing this sliver of light in the sky at night. At first I thought it was just the moon peeking through the clouds strangely. Then saw it last night and was 🤔. Today, saw it again and took a photo; it revealed the truth. It does NOT look like this with the naked eye.

A few blocks later, this same bird landed in the tree above my head to check me out. After awhile, I recorded a little. Heh, glad to see the bird not fly away this time.

A red tailed hawk in a tree

The red tailed hawk flying away

Spotted my local red-tailed hawk today. Got annoyed and flew off, 😁.

YouTube video by Sengir Minion ICE Agents Kidnapping Matthew James Obadiah Allen (Stage Name Nur-D) in Minneapolis, MN 01/24/2026

I just got back from seeing the monks and unfortunately the first texts I saw were from my friends saying that our friend Matt Allen, who performs as the musician Nur-D, was tackled, pepper sprayed, and arrested by ICE in Minneapolis, and the whole thing is on video youtu.be/xxFOENnJ7dE?...

NYT headline: "Videos Appear to Contradict Federal Accounts of Fatal Shooting"

No. They do not "appear to" contradict it. They contradict it.

Bovino press conference ended abruptly:

That’s their line now — “ICE must leave this one city.” And what, move to the next one? The locusts are done with these crops, now to the next field? Go cause violence elsewhere, there’s been enough done in MN?

Oh and I am fully aware of the grumbling about Nnedi out there.

It's all good.

Let's face it, my standing tall and loud (flaws, gifts and all) makes you have to interrogate assumptions you've made about your own world and what you see may be fraught. Good luck with that.

Funny thing is that I have criticisms of africanfuturism, too.
But it's not about things being perfect (nothing is perfect), it's about there being room for ALL The Work and The Work not being flattened, reduced, erased (especially in order to suit an agenda).

I have spent years telling people that I write africanfuturism. That I do not write and never have written “afrofuturism”, a reductive and America-centric label that gets slapped on all things black and speculative regardless of everything. I have taken the time to define the term Africanfuturism for people for clarity and understanding of the cultural differences and significance. The distinction matters. I have explained on numerous occasions why I coined it as one word, not two. Why there is no capital ”F”, etc. I’ve had whyte people push back at me saying that they they knew my own background and culture better better than me and they will choose who I am to be called. I have had black people accuse me of being divisive for basically existing and being proud of my existence. I’ve watched others suddenly scramble to make up their own terms so they, *gasp*, don’t have to use the one I coined (do whatever you like, I don’t care…but it’s cute how it took me stepping up and fighting for space for years for you to step up. Yeah, you’re welcome). People act like they can’t spell or control autocorrect. They act confused, vapid and kinda stupid. They get really emotional about me defining myself, despite the fact that I had good reason to. The issue is bigger than the name of a category and limited understanding of culture within speculative fiction. It’s about black culture and identity, as a whole. Now I see it manifesting in a different way with Death of the Author. I see people saying they’re not sure if the main character is Nigerian or American (she’s Nigerian American, naijamerican…and my very first novel, an adult literary novel with mystical elements, was rejected by editors at the major publishers, editors who were whyte AND one who was black, BECAUSE they didn’t know if my character was American or Nigerian. I’ve come full circle). I see some mistakenly saying the novel is set in Nigeria (it’s mainly set in Chicago, though we’ve got Trinidad and Tobago, B…

All this. Still.
If I don't say it, no one will. Thankfully, I have a big mouth.
#Africanfuturism

Source: www.facebook.com/nnedi/posts/...

Currently listening to their calls and giggling, 🤭.

I was just talking to a friend in Nairobi when an ibis started screaming in the background (in Nairobi). I’ve seen plenty in person, but I didn’t know they SOUNDED so obnoxious! Now I’m going down the rabbit hole of Ibis calls, 😆. A good way to start the day.

wish i could respond in Igbo. but at least i can read it…mostly. 😊

people here sometimes get me angry af. *especially* on the topic labels imposed on me.

That person spamming my comments, I'm talking to YOU.

If you are outside of the conversation, it's perfectly normal and logical to sit the fuck down and stfu.