We were the best and we pushed each other to get closer to “God. None of us would have made it into the university if we couldn’t tree, but it’s not easy.
Born in the United States to two Nigerian (Igbo) immigrant parents and visiting family in Nigeria since she was a. The more specific terms for her works are africanfuturism and africanjujuism, both terms she coined and defined. When you do math fractals long enough, you kick yourself into treeing just enough to get lost in the shallows of the mathematical sea. Nnedi Okorafor is a New York Times Bestselling writer of science fiction and fantasy for both children and adults. Yet they were girls who knew what I meant when I spoke of “treeing.” We sat in my room (because, having so few travel items, mine was the emptiest) and challenged each other to look out at the stars and imagine the most complex equation and then split it in half and then in half again and again. They were girls who could not stand the rays of Earth’s sun unless it was shining through a tinted window. They were all girls who grew up in sprawling houses, who’d never walked through the desert, who’d never stepped on a snake in the dry grass.
Everyone else I met in the dining area or the learning room where various lectures were held by professors onboard the ship.
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