Buy ‘Strong Like Me’
Strong Like Me is out now and available at all major booksellers!
order from an independent store here, or ask your local bookstore.
Events
Strong Like Us: Kelechi Okafor and Friends at Southbank Centre
Saturday 13th July, 7pm
Join me and a panel of incredible women as we look into my new book Strong Like Me, and discuss Black womanhood in today’s world and what strength means to us personally. Tickets are £15 (grab one here!) and the accessible event will be in Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre. Do keep in mind this is a 16+ event.
WACL Festival of Talent
Thursday 2nd May
It’s happening soon! In a world where we need creativity more than ever - how do you embrace creativity in a world that drains you of it? WACL’s Festival of Talent 2024 is a one-day accelerator designed for established and emerging female leaders. I am so excited to be speaking at this event alongside other likeminded women.
Get your tickets here!
Talkin’ Tarot: Workshop and Mingle
Thursday 16th May, 7pm
Tickets for my first Tarot event are officially sold out! From absolute beginners to seasoned tarot readers, I will be taking guests through aspects of the tarot deck and how it can be a tool towards liberation. The venue will be Queen of the South pub in South London and there will be nibbles and drinks for everyone.
Interrupted at Brighton Book Festival
Sunday 23rd June, 3.30pm
Come and see myself, Mikaela Loach and Elle Machray dive into a discussion on activism - what roles do history and literature play in activism, what insights can we delve deeper into and what may the future of activism, look like? Tickets are live and can be found here.
Strong Like Me
Read a Baby Girl’s first picture-book! The heartwarming and inspirational story supports the next generation of baby people (and our inner baby people) to discover their power, champion themselves, and be unapologetically secure in who they are.
‘Strong Like Me is a timely picture book debut by writer, social commentator, and podcast host Kelechi Okafor. This inspirational story aims to help children discover their power, champion themselves, and be unapologetically secure in who they are. Packed full of heart, the story opens important conversations around ability, intersectionality, race, and identity.’
- Progressive Preschool Magazine, Spring edition 2024
Kamara loves being super strong - it makes her feel fizzy and zappy! But her classmates and their negative words lead her to question herself and the confidence she has in her physical ability.
With sport's day and the Big Race looming, does Kamara have what it takes to reach the finish line?
“A BEAUTIFUL celebration of STRENGTH in all its forms.”
- Dapo Adeola
Edge Of Here
Enter a world very close to our own... One in which technology can allow you to explore an alternate love-life with a stranger.
A world where you can experience the emotions of another person through a chip implanted in your brain. And one where you can view snippets of a distant relative's life with a little help from your DNA.
But remember: these experiences will not be without consequences . . .
In this stunning debut collection, Kelechi Okafor combines the ancient and the ultramodern to explore tales of contemporary Black womanhood, asking questions about the way we live now and offering a glimpse into our near future.
Uplifting, thought-provoking, sometimes chilling, these are tales rooted in the recognisable, but not limited by the boundaries of our current reality-where truth can meet imagination and spirituality in unexpected ways.
Allow yourself to be taken on a journey into worlds that are blazing with possibility, through stories that will lead you right up to the Edge of Here.
Book Orders
Edge of Here is out now!
Buy your copy from all major booksellers in hardback, ebook, and audiobook. For independent bookstores, place an order through your local store, or visit:
“Black women deserve love, tenderness, romance; they deserve to read about themselves—and not always in a traumatic way”
- Kelechi Okafor
Press
iNews - Edge of Here by Kelechi Okafor, review: An afrofuturist Black Mirror shot through with romance
Times Radio - Alexis Conran
BBC 1Xtra Talks with Richie Brave - Traditional African spirituality
The New Scientist - The best new science fiction books of September 2023
The Bookseller (Cover story) - Kelechi Okafor in conversation about romance and crafting short stories
Meet Kelechi as she gets into her bookish bag. If you don’t see your city listed, tag your local bookstore on our Instagram page @EdgeOfHere