One of the things drilled into your head is: be careful when you're walking because kidnapping is all too common.

'It was difficult because I related so much to those girls. The teacher looked at me and said, 'You're Nigerian. I was at York University at the time and I believe I was in my third-year social psychology class. It sparked this global campaign called Bring Back Our Girls. 'While working on the book in 2014, these young girls were kidnapped in Chibok, Nigeria. I thought it would be cool to introduce a mythology to Western society that isn't all that common. I sawLord of the Ringsand movies and books about Zeus and Norse mythology. I want to bring this culture to the forefront.

I thought it would be cool to introduce a mythology to Western society that isn't all that common. ', I saw Lord of the Rings and movies and books about Zeus and Norse mythology. Growing up, she would always tell me stories about the Orisha gods, which is the tradtional folklore of the Yoruba group, my ethnic group back in Nigeria. Those first 12 years of my life, I was really close with my grandmother - God bless her soul. But when she is forced to join the army under a brutal warlord, Sloane realizes she has an opportunity to use her magical powers to defeat the enemy from within.īlood Scion was on the Canada Reads 2023 longlist and CBC Books named Falaye a Black writer to watch in 2023.įalaye spoke to CBC Books about why she wanted to write Blood Scion. In Blood Scion, a teen named Sloane discovers she is a superpowered Scion, a descendant of the ancient Orisha gods. Years later, her debut fantasy novel Blood Scion is her way of keeping their stories alive, as well as introducing the beauty of Yoruba mythology to Canadian readers. Born and raised in Lagos before moving to Canada at age 12, the YA author related to their young lives too much to forget them. In 2014, when Deborah Falaye heard that 276 girls were kidnapped from school by the terrorist group Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria, it wasn't just a news story to her.

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