Nnedi Okorafor, PhD

I wish I could agree with you. It does look like me. But it’s clearly NOT me.

awesome! :-)!!!!

that doesn't explain putting me in those very western-coded clothes.

that doesn't explain putting me in those very western-coded clothes.

I DETEST suits and blazers and anything of the sort. I do not wear these items. This is a conscious decision I make that has MEANING. To me, those clothes reflect a colonial menta...lol, let me not even start.

The way AI-generated images are used is so often such shit.

a green and yellow parakeet is walking on a glass table ALT: a green and yellow parakeet is walking on a glass table

And I don't smile like that.
And that is not me.
And this is what I want to do to that false image...

I'm flattered but...WTF is this AI shit image? NEVER EVER would I wear this type of SHIT. lol! NEVER. TUFIAKWA! 🤮 FAKE FAKE FAKE. A visual lie. OMFG, what a world.

👋🏾!!

Are those nunbirds? I have been obsessing over them for the last five minutes, I admit, 😆.

Yep. One of the most abundant birds in my neighborhood and easily THE most abundant bird around my home. 😊

Hummingbird in a tree

It’s always good to pause and appreciate, 😌.

I can hear this phrase, lol.

Periwinkle on his back on Anyaugo’s legs

#caturday 🤣

We know each other, heh.
But yeah.

Nnedi and Claire

Interviewed musician/singer/songwriter Grimes (I know her as Claire Boucher…yeah yeah, she’s also the mother of 3 of children with Musk) yesterday via Zoom for Interview Magazine. She asked for me specifically. It’s been a while since I wore my journalist hat; it still fits! 📝

It’s been out over a year and been well received. In general, I have zero reason to beat around the bush, lol. It is what it is.

It’s been out over a year and been well received. In general, I have zero reason to beat around the bush, lol. It is what it is.

Only those who know my novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR will understand that post and that’s fine.

Just needed to say it.

DEATH OF THE AUTHOR features a book within the book.

Also, I have to keep saying “my novel” because some people are willfully dense and think I’m talking about the Barthes essay,😒.

I’m seeing the novel Rusted Robots in my novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR get described as “Zelu creating an AI-driven epic”. I guess they want that buzz word “AI” in there, but Zelu’s novel is centered around physical robots, AI and machines in a post-human world. And Zelu WROTE it, why say “created” it?!

Nnedi with Neptune Onyedike the sphynx cat

#caturday

3 headshots of nnedi okorafor, tananarive due, and stephen graham jones on a paper background with text and a qr code

Get your tickets to the Locus Awards in May! Guests of Honor are Nnedi Okorafor, Stephen Graham Jones and Tananarive Due, we are so excited to be partnering with the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley!

Tickets at locusmag.com/2026-lo... or via the link in our bio!! C U there.

No. It’s definitely not all opinions. Plenty are facts I care less and less to explain them.

A tiny grasshopper nymph

Aw, 😊.

That uncomfortable photo of me at the Emmy Awards (ah, when will this orbit go away, lol) and an image of Death of the Author with the Libby awards logo

My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR has won the Libby Book Award (a.k.a. the Librarians Choice Award) for Best Science Fiction, 🇳🇬🇺🇸🤖🐬!

Full list here: www.libbylife.com/blog/the-win...

The Libby Book Award winners were announced, & we’re thrilled that these three phenomenal authors have won awards!

Congratulations to Catherine Newman (WRECK, Best Book Club Book), Nnedi Okorafor (DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, Best Science Fiction), & Alison Bechdel (SPENT, Best Comic/Graphic Novel)!
#ewgc

Slowly, I’m getting there. 😌

Gradually, I’m losing the urge and patience to explain things to people. I just don’t give as much of a shit about whether they get it or not. More often, I just want to say, “Sure, enjoy that,” then turn and continuing playing with my happy cats.

❤️

Thank you, 😊🙏🏾

So many weirdos on social media media, lol. Thankfully, there’s room for us all.