Sunny also discovered that, like her new friends, she possesses magical abilities and is therefore what is known as a “Leopard Person,” as opposed to one of the mundane Lambs, like her parents and two brothers. In the first book, Sunny overcame this hurdle and made new friends, among them fifteen-year-olds Orlu and Sasha, two boys with very different tempraments, and Chichi, a girl who may or may not be Sunny’s age of thirteen. Sunny has albinism, a trait for which some of the superstitious fear her and to call her “Akata,” an insult that means “Bush animal,” according to some. The books’ protagonist is Sunny Nwazue, an African-American girl born to Nigerian immigrant parents and now living in Nigeria. Having read and enjoyed the first book in your If-Harry-Potter-was-a-girl-in-Nigeria series of young adult novels, Akata Witch, I’ve been looking forward to the sequel, Akata Warrior.
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