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Prologue-Chapter 3

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Okorafor, Nnedi. Akata Witch. Penguin Random House LLC, 2011. Paperback.

· In the Prologue, Sunny is staring into a candle when she sees something that frightens her and she sets her hair on fire.

· She thinks she sees the world ending in flames.

· Her mother has to cut off 70% of her hair.

· Sunny says that her two older brothers and her parents were born in Nigeria, but she was born in New York.

· They are Igbo, an ethnic group in Nigeria.

· Sunny is an albino with green eyes, light yellow hair, and fair skin that burns in the sun.

· She remembers having malaria when she was two and she saw a small light before she recovered.

· Sunny does not have a good relationship with her father.

· She thinks he hates her because she is not a...

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