Paperback, 264 pages
English language
Published Oct. 15, 2013 by Prime Books.
Kabu Kabu - unregistered, illegal Nigerian taxis - generally get you where you need to go, but Nnedi Okorafor's Kabu Kabu takes the reader to exciting, fantastic, magical, occasionally dangerous, and always imaginative locations. This debut short story collection by award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor includes notable previously-published short work, a new novella co-written with New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster, and a brief foreword by Whoopi Goldberg.
I've found Okorafor's work to be hit and miss, and this is no exception—the strongest stories are excellent, and the threads weaving through them are fun, but it's weighed down by a lot of stuff that's just mediocre
