Ongoing Odyssey

We are reading "Binti: Home" by Nnedi Okorafor. It is the second in the series. The novella combines multiple genres such as African-American, adventure, first contact, space opera, fiction, and science fiction. The physical book edition contains 176 pages, while the audiobook lasts 4 hours and 10 minutes.

It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places.
And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders.
But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace.
After generations of conflict can human and Meduse ever learn to truly live in harmony?

We are reading "Binti: The Night Masquerade" by Nnedi Okorafor. It is the third in the series. The novella combines multiple genres such as heartfelt, adventure, first contact, space opera, fiction, and science fiction. The physical book edition contains 208 pages, while the audiobook lasts 6 hours and 11 minutes.

Binti has returned to her home planet, believing that the violence of the Meduse has been left behind. Unfortunately, although her people are peaceful on the whole, the same cannot be said for the Khoush, who fan the flames of their ancient rivalry with the Meduse.
Far from her village when the conflicts start, Binti hurries home, but anger and resentment have already claimed the lives of many close to her. Once again it is up to Binti, and her intriguing new friend Mwinyi, to intervene - though the elders of her people do not entirely trust her motives - and try to prevent a war that could wipe out her people once and for all.