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Prologue-Chapter 5

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi. Zahrah the Windseeker. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. Hardcover.

· Although the novel relates incidents from the past, the present tense has been used when describing the events related by the narrator.

· Any comments interjected as Zahrah relates her story from the future are labeled clearly.

· Zahrah opens her story with a letter to explain to readers that she is writing her story because of a photo published in the Ooni Inquirer.

· She berates the journalist who hid in a tree and took photos of her and Dari.

· Zahrah can fly, but she is “not a witch, a jinni, or a ghost posting as [her] living self” (vi).

· She is a Windseeker, and she will tell the story of what really happened so readers can understand.

· In the Prologue, “My World,” when Zahrah was born...

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