Nnedi Okorafor, PhD
@nnedi.bsky.social
*THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD
@nnedi.bsky.social
· Nov 24
This was my response in The Guardian 3 years ago when I was asked if my work was a response to the prevalence of whiteness in science fiction.
I’m totally patting “January 2021 Nnedi” on the back. Yes, Nnedi. So much yes, 🙌🏾 :
I’m totally patting “January 2021 Nnedi” on the back. Yes, Nnedi. So much yes, 🙌🏾 :
They always want to go with and I want them to go with, too. 😁
October 27, 2026 at 9:46 PM
They always want to go with and I want them to go with, too. 😁
One of my neighbors is playing "This is Halloween" (from The Nightmare Before Christmas) on a trumpet. Haha, best holiday of the year. 🎃
October 26, 2026 at 7:11 PM
One of my neighbors is playing "This is Halloween" (from The Nightmare Before Christmas) on a trumpet. Haha, best holiday of the year. 🎃
if you have no profile pic, i don't trust you.
October 26, 2026 at 5:27 PM
if you have no profile pic, i don't trust you.
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Lula has won a fourth term in spite of Meta, after Brazil’s electoral court had to order platforms to stop throttling his reach while they boosted his Trump-backed opponent. Big Tech tried to rig this but the Brazilian people had the final say ✊
October 26, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Lula has won a fourth term in spite of Meta, after Brazil’s electoral court had to order platforms to stop throttling his reach while they boosted his Trump-backed opponent. Big Tech tried to rig this but the Brazilian people had the final say ✊
I'm aware of how much you all hate Maher. I KNOW...gonna speak anyway: Bill Maher often makes me angry and I was angry at him disgusted with him for doing a 2nd to dinner with Trump (1st time, fine, whatever. But now? He's a lame-duck president AND an asshole, why?)...
October 26, 2026 at 4:21 AM
I'm aware of how much you all hate Maher. I KNOW...gonna speak anyway: Bill Maher often makes me angry and I was angry at him disgusted with him for doing a 2nd to dinner with Trump (1st time, fine, whatever. But now? He's a lame-duck president AND an asshole, why?)...
I love the weirdness of Halloween, 😆 (*sound on*).
October 25, 2026 at 8:59 PM
I love the weirdness of Halloween, 😆 (*sound on*).
Yesterday, I caught a butterfly and it had a SNOUT. 🤣 I thought it was a painted lady with…something wrong.
Turns out it’s Libytheana carinenta, aka a snout butterfly. The snout is made of elongated sensory appendages. 🦋🐘
How am I just discovering this common but strange butterfly? ✨🥰
Turns out it’s Libytheana carinenta, aka a snout butterfly. The snout is made of elongated sensory appendages. 🦋🐘
How am I just discovering this common but strange butterfly? ✨🥰
October 25, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Yesterday, I caught a butterfly and it had a SNOUT. 🤣 I thought it was a painted lady with…something wrong.
Turns out it’s Libytheana carinenta, aka a snout butterfly. The snout is made of elongated sensory appendages. 🦋🐘
How am I just discovering this common but strange butterfly? ✨🥰
Turns out it’s Libytheana carinenta, aka a snout butterfly. The snout is made of elongated sensory appendages. 🦋🐘
How am I just discovering this common but strange butterfly? ✨🥰
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I'm sitting at my desk writing. It's a sunny 72F Saturday morning, and the window is open. My local hummingbird is singing 3 feet away. Neptune is on my lap, ka-ka-ka-ing at three quail strutting past the window. I have a peach cobbler baking in the oven, its aroma permeating the house.
Bliss. 😊
Bliss. 😊
October 24, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I'm sitting at my desk writing. It's a sunny 72F Saturday morning, and the window is open. My local hummingbird is singing 3 feet away. Neptune is on my lap, ka-ka-ka-ing at three quail strutting past the window. I have a peach cobbler baking in the oven, its aroma permeating the house.
Bliss. 😊
Bliss. 😊
My daughter brought this home. What the heck type of plantain is this??? Is it going to ripen like the usual type? Ooooh man, if this get sweet and I fry it up, 😋😋😋. I have a feeling that’s too good to be true. Lemme guess, it never gets sweet. 😒
October 23, 2026 at 4:03 AM
My daughter brought this home. What the heck type of plantain is this??? Is it going to ripen like the usual type? Ooooh man, if this get sweet and I fry it up, 😋😋😋. I have a feeling that’s too good to be true. Lemme guess, it never gets sweet. 😒
One of the best things about working out is how great it makes food taste. Also, the happy feeling you get for about two hours afterwards and how wonderful it makes your sleep.
October 23, 2026 at 3:52 AM
One of the best things about working out is how great it makes food taste. Also, the happy feeling you get for about two hours afterwards and how wonderful it makes your sleep.
I said this two years ago, and I’m saying it again today:
For women who are Trump supporters, for some perspective, I recommend reading Clarice Lispector’s short story, “The Chicken” (it’s titled “The Hen” in this post…probably a different translation). jenny-mcphee.com/2010/12/04/t...
For women who are Trump supporters, for some perspective, I recommend reading Clarice Lispector’s short story, “The Chicken” (it’s titled “The Hen” in this post…probably a different translation). jenny-mcphee.com/2010/12/04/t...
Two Stories by Clarice Lispector Translated by Elizabeth Bishop
In my pantheon of favorite writers, Clarice Lispector is right there at the top. She’s a writer, like Muriel Spark or Thomas Bernhard, who always make me ask when reading their work: Is this…
jenny-mcphee.com
October 23, 2026 at 12:37 AM
I said this two years ago, and I’m saying it again today:
For women who are Trump supporters, for some perspective, I recommend reading Clarice Lispector’s short story, “The Chicken” (it’s titled “The Hen” in this post…probably a different translation). jenny-mcphee.com/2010/12/04/t...
For women who are Trump supporters, for some perspective, I recommend reading Clarice Lispector’s short story, “The Chicken” (it’s titled “The Hen” in this post…probably a different translation). jenny-mcphee.com/2010/12/04/t...
I WAS TALKING ABOUT A FUCKING OWL
October 22, 2026 at 7:24 AM
I WAS TALKING ABOUT A FUCKING OWL
Anyone watch the show Years and Years? It’s my 3rd time watching it and…it leaves me more paranoid and disturbed than Black Mirror. 😮💨
October 22, 2026 at 6:57 AM
Anyone watch the show Years and Years? It’s my 3rd time watching it and…it leaves me more paranoid and disturbed than Black Mirror. 😮💨
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Oh, I forgot one! Before I joined Bluesky, I knew Nnedi Okorafor @nnedi.bsky.social as an author of books for adults.
But I didn’t know until I followed her that she also writes for young people!
Just bought YA fantasy AKATA WITCHA for one of my nieces.
#SkyBuys #BookSky
But I didn’t know until I followed her that she also writes for young people!
Just bought YA fantasy AKATA WITCHA for one of my nieces.
#SkyBuys #BookSky
October 22, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Oh, I forgot one! Before I joined Bluesky, I knew Nnedi Okorafor @nnedi.bsky.social as an author of books for adults.
But I didn’t know until I followed her that she also writes for young people!
Just bought YA fantasy AKATA WITCHA for one of my nieces.
#SkyBuys #BookSky
But I didn’t know until I followed her that she also writes for young people!
Just bought YA fantasy AKATA WITCHA for one of my nieces.
#SkyBuys #BookSky
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We're less than a month away from publication of The Best Science Fiction of the Year: 2025 in hardcover, trade paperback, and ebook editions. You can order them from:
neil-clarke.com/where-you-ca...
Print copies ordered direct from Wyrm will be signed by me.
neil-clarke.com/where-you-ca...
Print copies ordered direct from Wyrm will be signed by me.
October 19, 2026 at 4:57 PM
We're less than a month away from publication of The Best Science Fiction of the Year: 2025 in hardcover, trade paperback, and ebook editions. You can order them from:
neil-clarke.com/where-you-ca...
Print copies ordered direct from Wyrm will be signed by me.
neil-clarke.com/where-you-ca...
Print copies ordered direct from Wyrm will be signed by me.
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sock owl
the sowl
the sowl
October 20, 2026 at 8:25 PM
sock owl
the sowl
the sowl
I’ll be back in Nigeria in a few weeks for my favorite book festival, 🇳🇬😊.
October 20, 2026 at 8:14 PM
I’ll be back in Nigeria in a few weeks for my favorite book festival, 🇳🇬😊.
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How your email finds me...
October 20, 2026 at 4:49 PM
How your email finds me...
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✨Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine Spotlight! 📚
One Way Witch (She Who Knows, Book 2) by Nnedi Okorafor is now at @naamnw!
The world has forgotten Onyesonwu, but her mother remembers. 🔥
A powerful Africanfuturist tale of magic, grief, motherhood & reclaiming destiny.
#SistahScifi #NnediOkorafor
One Way Witch (She Who Knows, Book 2) by Nnedi Okorafor is now at @naamnw!
The world has forgotten Onyesonwu, but her mother remembers. 🔥
A powerful Africanfuturist tale of magic, grief, motherhood & reclaiming destiny.
#SistahScifi #NnediOkorafor
October 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM
✨Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine Spotlight! 📚
One Way Witch (She Who Knows, Book 2) by Nnedi Okorafor is now at @naamnw!
The world has forgotten Onyesonwu, but her mother remembers. 🔥
A powerful Africanfuturist tale of magic, grief, motherhood & reclaiming destiny.
#SistahScifi #NnediOkorafor
One Way Witch (She Who Knows, Book 2) by Nnedi Okorafor is now at @naamnw!
The world has forgotten Onyesonwu, but her mother remembers. 🔥
A powerful Africanfuturist tale of magic, grief, motherhood & reclaiming destiny.
#SistahScifi #NnediOkorafor
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nightjar doing impression of pile of leaves >>>
October 19, 2026 at 11:47 PM
nightjar doing impression of pile of leaves >>>
I think this @locusmag.bsky.social interview with top-tier #African #futurist #author @nnedi.bsky.social is well worth #reading anytime! The interview marks completion of the “She Who Knows” Trilogy #amreading #sciencefiction #BookSky📚💙
locusmag.com/feature/nned...
locusmag.com/feature/nned...
October 19, 2026 at 4:02 PM
This owl was getting banded and tagged by the Rocky Point Bird Observatory. For the owl’s safety, he/she was wrapped up.
These photos…🤣🦉. So cute.
These photos…🤣🦉. So cute.
October 19, 2026 at 3:53 AM
This owl was getting banded and tagged by the Rocky Point Bird Observatory. For the owl’s safety, he/she was wrapped up.
These photos…🤣🦉. So cute.
These photos…🤣🦉. So cute.