Jwahir

Jwahir is the town where Onyesonwu spends the majority of her life in a post-apocalyptic future. It is a desert town populated by Okeke, an ethnic group of which her mother is a part. In Jwahir, Onyesonwu experiences ostracization because of her ewu heritage. Due to their geographic distance from the Seven Rivers Kingdom, the people of Jwahir are generally indifferent to the suffering in the west. Jwahir represents a privileged middle-class society where outsiders are tolerated but obviously considered second-class, and where stories of distant suffering cause no alarm. Jwahir is also a formative place for Onyesonwu as she goes to school in Jwahir and meets her closest friends and her lover Mwita, and as she studies under the local sorcerer Aro to develop her powers.

The desert

The desert is a harsh place, but it is also where Onyesonwu spent the first six years of her...