I remember being startled the first time I heard this comparison. I love the Akata Witch series... your words, the scenes you set, the characters are all wonderful ... Sunny's world feels so different to me than HP.
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"Existing in the same literary continuum as" ≠ "directly inspired by". Why is this so hard to grasp for some people? (Also, I read Who Fears Death recently, and really really loved it; opening sequence one of my all-time favourites)
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Ada Mazi.
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My mum too is from Arondizuogu
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Maybe a meme would help?

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And tell them again, as necessary. They see such a statement as a compliment or "just" a frame of reference. NO. It's a thoroughly original work on which a lazy European reference is being imposed. Expand your world.
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I understand your annoyance with that but there are some scenes that are a direct correlation to the Potter series so I can also understand why people say that. In any case I
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Just started listening to Akata Witch on tape during my commute. I’m loving it so far. Silly for folks to compare it to Harry Potter, since the motif of a child awakening to a whole new unexpected world of magic had been around long before JK Rowling and in many traditions.
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Not really “silly” even though you’re right. it’s not about being first Harry Potter is obviously largest and most successful and popular... it’s like calling something the McDonalds of _______ McDonalds wasn’t the first burger or fast food place.
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My stories aren't the black version of white authors. My foundation isn't whiteness (no disrespect to whiteness). Ijs.
My foundation geminated in Arondizuogu & Isiekenesi.