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Akata Woman

core novel 2022 The Nsibidi Scripts

Record

First published2022
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating4.19 (5,168 ratings, collected 2026-08-15)
Page count404
First-edition ISBN9780451480583
Internal chronology3

Where it sits

Awards (verified)

  • Lodestar Award (Best Young Adult Book), 2023: won; Confirmed directly via thehugoawards.org's own 2023 Hugo Awards history page (the Lodestar is administered alongside the Hugos).

Notes

  • From the series record (The Nsibidi Scripts): Complete YA fantasy trilogy set primarily in Aba, Nigeria, following Sunny Nwazue and the magical Leopard People society grounded in Nigerian culture, folklore, and Nsibidi script magic. Akata Witch was published in Nigeria and the UK under the title What Sunny Saw in the Flames.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.

  • Reading order, within the series The Nsibidi Scripts: position 3 of 3: previous Akata Warrior (2017)

Sources

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