Death of the Author: A Stunning Africanfuturist Exploration of the Power of Humanity’s Greatest Creation: STORYTELLING

Although at the start, it was a slow pace for my liking I was heavily invested in the Rusted Rpbots- Ankara and Injele. Especially after they were fully evolved characters. Zelu wheelchair bound, potty mouth, free spirit is a hard-to-love protagonist. The prose of this novel is effortless, it carries both stories excellently. I commend Nnedi Okorafor for such an ambitious approach to storytelling. Telling the robots story alongside, their creator, Zelu's story was chefs kiss. Zelu's perspective on life, love, family, success, abelism is powerful and captivating. Her desire to be whole and fixed again Related to the Humes replacing their malfunctioning pieces thriving to survive if only to preserve the planet and the history of what humans once were. Also Zelu's demand to be independent was met with the supply of AI, a self driving cars and robotic prosthetics. Both stories complimented each other, and had great potential to spin off in their own direction completely. They remained relevant to one another, until the end. The end felt very confusing ...even rushed. The Robot scholar, Ankara created the story of Ngozi, the last serving human, who saved their life by embedding Ijele. The significance of AI merging with Robotics technologies in today's reality and in the fictional world is so relevant. The biggest draw for me to keep reading was trying to determine which story was real, is Zelu a character in Ankara's story or is it the other way around? Also... what happened to Zelu? I highly recommend this read and would advise anyone who starts it to push through because there's something special about this one!! I give it 7.5 stars (rounded up with love).