![]() ![]() It is directly likened to Sankofa’s beginnings, “like a tiny Sankofa bird egg or…seed. It’s not long after this that under her own beloved tree, a seed makes itself known to her, rising from the dirt in a wooden box. Normalcy and the supernatural exist side by side throughout Remote Control, beginning when Fatima sees bright green meteors shooting down into nearby trees from her backyard. From the start, Fatima carried a burden within her body and yet lived resiliently. Her only hardship was malaria, and Okorafor builds her protagonist’s character amidst this adversity gently, as a little girl’s acceptance of the only version of the world that she knows. Before she was Sankofa, she was Fatima, a girl living happily on a shea tree farm in the Ghanaian town of Wulugu with her family. It all stems from a seed, fallen from the sky and found in Sankofa’s backyard. There are many legends about Sankofa’s power, some truer than others, but no one knows the whole truth-not even Sankofa herself. A mysterious fox follows her everywhere she goes. When she touches technology, it instantly breaks. Nnedi Okorafor’s newest novella, Remote Control, introduces Sankofa through the stories many people tell about her-she is Death’s own remote control, they say. With a glowing green light that comes from within her, she can take the lives of those around her. Sankofa is the adopted daughter of Death. ![]()
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