Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu's The Shadow Speaker is a science fiction YA novel set in Africa in the year 2070. 
On the back cover of the novel there are quotes from Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula K. Le Guin praising the author's imagination and originality. I couldn't agree more. The time and place of the story are like nothing I've read before, and the characters are complex and unpredictable. This is post-nuclear war Earth, where people live in a world profoundly changed. The laws of physics no longer apply, and magic is no longer confined to fantasy books. The heroine, fourteen-year-old Ejii, goes on a dangerous journey in response to a mystical calling. Toward the end I did have a little trouble sticking with the story, because it just became a little too "out there" for my taste. Still, this is a marvelous book filled with great characters and a suspenseful plot.
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