Soila Kenya's Reviews > She Who Knows

"I can do this thing," I said. It's a thing, but it has forms...Sometimes I am this glowing beast. Other times I am just the wind. And at the market, I can project a deep part of myself until it is loud and clear, and forceful...but it's all part of the same thing, I believe."

As an Igbo girl/woman in the diaspora (my mum is Nigerian, my dad is Kenyan and I live in Kenya) reading Nnedi's books always feels like coming home. Who fears Death showed me my Nigerian name in book for the first time (Ifunanya) and She Who Knows has now shown me my mother's middle name in a book for the first time as well (Unoma).

This book has powerful female characters and is set within the africanjujuism and africanfuturism worlds we've come to know and love. This is a great read for those who want to dip their toes once more in the mystical world of Who fears Death as it tells the story of Onyesonwu's mother and how she discovered she was a sorceress. I actually don't think it'll be thrilling enough for those who haven't read that yet.

Short, clean writing, almost slice-of-life. It was clearly a set up for a greater tale. I look forward to the rest of the story.

Thank you, Daw Books and Netgalley, for the review copy.