AO has extensive, life saving body modifications, and while most of her community views her as damaged or even evil, she embraces the technology and eventually masters it. Focused on leading lady AO, Noor explores the idea of what it truly means to be human. I had no idea what to expect from this African dystopian and it certainly delivered a wild ride. I stumbled upon this audiobook purely by chance and I’m grateful I did. This fast-paced, relentless journey of tribe, destiny, body, and the wonderland of technology revels in the fact that the future sometimes isn't so predictable. In a world where all things are streamed, everyone is watching the "reckoning of the murderess and the terrorist" and the "saga of the wicked woman and mad man" unfold. Once on the run, she meets a Fulani herdsman named DNA and the race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria begins. And then one day she goes to her local market and everything goes wrong. Yet instead of viewing her strange body the way the world views it, as freakish, unnatural, even the work of the devil, AO embraces all that she is: A woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations. Then came the car accident years later that disabled her even further. Her parents spent most of the days before she was born praying for her peaceful passing because even in-utero she was "wrong". AO has never really felt.natural, and that's putting it lightly. To her, these initials have always stood for Artificial Organism. Noor focuses on a number of themes, including cybernetics, tradition, renewable energy, critiques of capitalism, solarpunk ideology, and a futuristic retelling of the farmer-pastoralist conflict of Nigeria.From Africanfuturist luminary Okorafor comes a new science fiction novel of intense action and thoughtful rumination on biotechnology, destiny, and humanity in a near-future Nigeria.Īnwuli Okwudili prefers to be called AO. Because he is also wanted for murder, DNA and AO flee together further north. Wanted for murder, she flees and encounters a Fulani herdsman named Dangote Nuhu Adamu, who goes by the name "DNA". After being attacked in a marketplace, AO fights back and ends up killing several men. To the north, a great sandstorm blows perpetually. Anwuli, who goes by the name "AO", lives as a mechanic in the capital city of Abuja. Plot Ī young woman named Anwuli Okwudili lives in a near-future Nigeria, where advanced technology has enabled her to upgrade unformed or weakened body parts with cybernetic prosthetics created by the megacorporation Ultimate Corporation. Noor is an Africanfuturist science fiction novel by Nnedi Okorafor. Script error: No such module "AfC topic". Script error: No such module "Draft topics".
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