Antar: the Black Knight

Book excerpt: Discover a legend in this epic and empowering debut graphic novel from Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor. Honor through perseverance. Legacy through diversity. Resonating for centuries, this is the epic story of one of history's greatest warriors and finest poets: Antar the Black Knight. A despised camel driver born of an African slave mother and an Arab Noble father, Antar proves that heroes are made by embracing who we are and dreaming about what we can become. Nnedi Okorafor is an international award-winning novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism for both children and adults. She has won multiple awards for her books including Who Fears Death (a World Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel), Zahrah the Windseeker (winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature), the BintiTrilogy (the first of which won both Hugo and Nebula Awards), and her children's book Chicken in the Kitchen (winner of an Africana Book Award).