Most human life outside the kingdom is in villages here and there. The majority of humans live in the Ooni Kingdom. Ginen - Another world, not dominated by humans, but by plants.Agadez - A real city, but notable events take place there.Kwàmfa - The village which Ejii, the chief's family, and Mrs.He is a Rain-maker, and because of the anti-powers mentality his parents forced him into slavery.

Dikeogu- A 14-year-old former slave who ran away from his camp.

Ugabe - She is the chief's first wife and the divorced adviser to Jaa following the chief's execution. But Jaa Marrying Buji, and Buji marrying Jaa are different. Buji's Family expects to be a traditional wife. They met while watching the 'burning bushes' (Carnivorous bushes that feed on bugs that are a cross between wasps and fireflies which gives them a yellow, orange glow).

Buji - From the Northern portion of the Ooni Kingdom on Ginen.

That would mean that the Aejej is not a product of the Great Change. He would still be an Aejej in our time because according to the novel, he was an aejej a short while before the 21st century. A Red flower fell as he calmed down and he turned back into a human. Jaa was being attacked by him and she started talking to him. He was turned into one when he was a child. He was eventually buried without his head. All in front of his oldest child, Ejii, and oldest son, Fadio (Ejii's half-brother). Then she sliced his head off, and it rolled into a meat-eating plant which ate it. One day, Jaa came to Kwamfa and confronted the man and accused him of using her name in vain and doing things that she would never agree to do. He apparently used that as an excuse to carry out his evil deeds. He seated himself chief in, quote, “.the name of our nurturing queen, Sarauniya Jaa!”.

When Jaa came to Kwamfa, the chief came along as an apprentice. He is said that he is of the fierce Woddabe tribe. When she speaks a red flower always accompanies her words. She witnessed the Great Change while a captive of a tribe who claimed her to be their queen. She is not an actual queen, but is treated like one. Ejimafor Ugabe - The 14-year-old daughter of the former Kwamfa Chief and one of the trusted advisers of the Sarauniya Jaa, the Red Queen.The whole world is falling apart due to nuclear fallout in “the early twenty-first century”. Her father was once the hated dictator-like chief. She lives in the Nigerian village of Kwàmfa. Plot Įjimafor 'Ejii' Ugabe is a fourteen-year-old Muslim half- Wodaabe, half- Igbo girl. It was a Booksense Pick for Winter 2007/2008, a Tiptree Honor Book, a finalist for the Essence Magazine Literary Award, the Andre Norton Award and the Golden Duck Award and an NAACP Image Award nominee. The Shadow Speaker is a young adult, first-person novel by Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor, which takes place in the year 2070.

The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor