6/21/2023 0 Comments Who fears death review![]() The Nuru sought to destroy Okeke families at the very root.” Through this early use of rape as a weapon of war, Okorafor creates clear parallels between the dystopian world of Who Fears Death and the disturbing reality of conflict the world over. An Okeke woman who gave birth to an Ewu child was bound to the Nuru through her child. The narrative tells us early on that, “These Nuru had planted a poison. Her pale skin marks her out as different from both the dark-skinned Okeke people amongst whom she lives and the aggressive, lighter-skinned Nuru, who use rape as a means of creating not only fear, but also for producing children who will suffer Onyesonwu’s fate. Onyesonwu is an outcast, rejected by her society as Ewu–a child of rape. Who Fears Death has a complex and multi-layered plot, but one which centers on a single character. ![]() It’s worth knowing this going into Who Fears Death the blurb makes it quite clear that Divergent this is not, but the scale of the graphic violence is deliberately shocking at times. For what is billed as a YA fantasy novel, Who Fears Death covers some incredibly tough, realistic topics and Okorafor makes no moves to spare her reader’s feelings in her honest, searing depiction of these events. The fourth chapter features a graphic description of a group of girls undergoing ritualised female genital mutilation. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first chapter of Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death is about a death. ![]()
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