![]() ![]() ![]() The seed was taken from her, but her power remains, endangering everyone she loves. ![]() Sankofa developed the power to cause death at a very young age when she found a seed that fell from the sky. Along the way, her past life is slowly revealed to us, and it’s a life filled with magical realism in a country with disturbingly powerful corporations and corrupt politicians. The book follows her attempts to make friends, right past wrongs, and figure out her purpose. It’s difficult to get farther into the plot of this book because first, it’s mostly a character study with some great social commentary thrown in, and second, what plot does happen falls firmly in spoiler territory.Īt the beginning of the book Sankofa is visiting a village where all the adults and most of the children are scared of her powers, each telling competing myths about Sankofa’s supposedly mystical background. ![]() But where do these powers really come from, and what is her purpose? People call her the Adopted Daughter of Death for her ability to cause the death of anyone in her vicinity through seemingly supernatural powers. Remote Control is the African futurist story of Sankofa, a young girl in Ghana in the near future who wanders from town to town in search of a lost treasure from the skies, accompanied by a fox and a cat. Nnedi Okorafor is here and she is not here to play. TW: childhood trauma, violence toward children, grief, animal abuse, violence and death, colonialism ![]()
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