No Place to Go
Remote Control
By Nnedi Okorafor

21 Aug, 2020
Doing What the WFC Cannot Do
Nnedi Okorafor’s 2021 Remote Control is an upcoming science fiction novella. Unless you’re reading this after January 2021, in which case strike “upcoming.”
Sankofa wanders Ghana in the company of a fox, visiting community after community. The people she encounters fall over themselves providing her with food and clothing. In part, this is because Sankofa provides a useful service. In large part, it is because she can burn people down to their bones merely by willing it.
Her story begins in the rural town of Wulugu, when she was just a sickly girl named Fatima.