Audiobook10 hours
Kabu Kabu
Written by Nnedi Okorafor and Whoopi Goldberg
Narrated by Yetide Badaki
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Kabu kabu-unregistered illegal Nigerian taxis-generally get you where you need to go. Nnedi Okorafor's Kabu Kabu, however, takes the listener to exciting, fantastic, magical, occasionally dangerous, and always imaginative locations you didn't know you needed. This debut short story collection by an award-winning author includes notable previously published material, a new novella cowritten with New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster, six additional original stories, and a brief foreword by Whoopi Goldberg.
Author
Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okorafor is a multi-award-winning author born in the United States to Nigerian parents. Her children's books have won the Macmillan Writers Prize for Africa, the Children's Africana Book Award and the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature.
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Reviews for Kabu Kabu
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Absurdly in love with this book. Each and every story touches something different in me. V grateful. So gorgeous.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Some dark ones in here. Nnedi made me want all these stories to go on forever.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I'm a big fan of Nnedi Okorafor, but these short stories were not enough -- such choppy little windows into her worlds, when you can get sucked into one of her books. They work, they are good, but they are not enough.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It was so wonderful to revisit the worlds Okorafor has created. The stories were great on the whole, but so many of them felt more like chapters of missing or existing novels and not necessarily succinct stories in themselves, which is what I prefer from short story collections. These made me hungry to revisit her other novels though, and I am now sufficiently eager for a new novel (2 coming out in 2014! whoop!).
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A lot of hits and a few misses here for me. The first story, "The Magical Negro", is only 3 pages long, and is maybe still my favorite of the bunch. I enjoyed all the stories, "How Inyang Got Her Wings" and "The Winds of Harmattan" to name a few, that gave me glimpses of the Windseekers (and reminded me I need to FINALLY read Okorafor's "Zahrah the Windseeker" ;___;).
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Okay, wow. Brace yourselves, folks, because I'm going to gush. I loved this collection of short stories. It was the first time I've read anything by Nnedi Okorafor and now I'm kicking myself for not reading her earlier. Though I think this collection might be a great place to start reading her works, because it contains several stories that are connected to her books.
Many of these stories felt to me as if Okorafor was taking on incident and turning it around and around then writing it from its many sides. I'm actually kind of amazed and thrilled by that, because it let me see things in so many different ways and got me thinking.
This collection is very much about women and their power. The sources of it, how people try to take it from them or erase it, and how women maintain it. One of my favorite stories was "The Palm Tree Bandit" about a woman to challenged cultural gender norms and inspired other women to do the same. I also really loved "The Carpet" and "The Baboon War" both of which Okorafor says were inspired by her own life. My favorite story was "On the Road" which was both terrifying and wonderful.
Okorafor takes you to Nigeria, in the past, the present, and the future. She introduces you to the people and lets you immerse yourself in the myths. You'll find your imagination flying like her windseekers even as you're troubled by the horrible truths that exist.
See? I said I'd be gushing. I loved the hell out of this book. I'll for sure be reading her other books.
(Provided by publisher) - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great collection of short stories. All the stories were good with really interesting fantasy and African dynamics. Some of the stories share a similar theme or character which was nice. Many of the stories were so good that I was disappointed when it was over.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I have been salivating over Kabu Kabu since I first saw Nnedi Okorafor tweeting about it a few months ago. When I saw it was available to review, I pounced and, after reading just the first story, I was not disappointed. I laughed out loud, so loudly in fact the neighboring dogs had to come back with their own version of the raucous sounds I was making.Read the rest of this review at The Lost Entwife on Oct. 2, 2013.