Zahrah the Windseeker

Zahrah the Windseeker (2005) is Okorafor's first novel, a young adult fantasy set in the mystical Ooni Kingdom, a future Africa where technology and nature are deeply intertwined. Zahrah, a thirteen-year-old girl marked by her unusual dadalocks and the mysterious powers they signal, ventures into the dangerous Forbidden Greeny Jungle to save her best friend. Winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. First editions are scarce.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, cloth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. Wole Soyinka Prize winner. ISBN: 0618340904. #11301.
Fine in fine dust jacket with minor crease on rear flap.