NOTE: Feel free to finish Binti: Home, for next time, though we'll only discuss the chapters above. We'll finish the book on the following class. The questions below are only for the next few chapters.
Answer TWO of the following:
Q1: Though most of Khoush culture looks down upon the Himba as savage and uncivilized, how are the Himba guilty of their own cultural subjectification? How does their own ethnocentricity affect Binti and her own family--notably, her father?
Q2: When Binti returns home, her old friend, Dele, accuses her of being "too complex," and all of them find her dangerous. What do they most fear about her new identity? How might she upset the careful cultural balance of the Himba people, merely because she left the planet to go to Oomza Uni?
Q3: Why do you think Binti returned to go on a pilgrimage, which is what a traditional Himba woman does once she comes of age (and before marriage)? Especially since, as she reflects, "No man wanted a girl who ran away." What does she think such a pilgrimage will accomplish when most people already reject her?
Q4: In the desert at eight years old, Binti finds the edan buried in the sand, and is told that she has found a "god stone." What might the edan, and the manner in which she found it, remind you of (what other stories)? How might this chapter be Okorafor's way of setting this story in a very traditional, familiar setting?
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