This week, we continue Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti: The Complete Trilogy, and discuss the second novella. What is philosophical dualism? Is Binti a Frodo or a Sam? How are universities exactly like Survivor?

Next week: Binti: The Night Masquerade, the third novella in Binti: The Complete Trilogy!

Footnotes:

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• Binti: The Complete Trilogy
  
  
• Nnedi Okorafor
  
  
• List of Films Produced Back-To-Back (Wikipedia)
  
  
• The Hero’s Journey (Joseph Campbell)
  
  
• Survivor
  
  
• District 9
  

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