Her magical teachers connect her with three other magical students to become a coven, a group of magical Leopard People assembled to pursue a purpose. As a free agent, she needs to learn about the magical community. Sunny discovers that she has magical abilities which makes her a "free agent" in the magical community called the Leopard People in West Africa. She is Black and albino, and cannot go out in the sun for long periods because of her albinism. Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue was born in America yet lives in Nigeria. Nnedi Okorafor based the novel in Nigerian culture, politics, cosmology, folklore, and tradition to create many of the entities and spirits in the novel. It was nominated for the Andre Norton Award and it is the first novel in the Nsibidi Scripts Series, where it is followed by two sequels Akata Warrior and Akata Woman published in 20 respectively. Akata Witch (retitled What Sunny Saw in the Flames in Nigeria and the UK) is a 2011 fantasy novel written by Nigerian-American author Nnedi Okorafor.
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