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Sunny’s Father
Sunny’s maternal grandmother, Ozoemena, was an esteemed Leopard scholar; she’s deceased in the novel’s present. Sunny grows up knowing little about her grandmother except that she was “strange,” and may have been mentally ill. However, as Sunny is inducted into Leopard society, she discovers that her grandmother was, like Sunny, unable to tell her Lamb (nonmagical) family members about being a Leopard Person due to laws forbidding Leopards from telling the truth. Through speaking with Sugar Cream, Sunny learns that Ozoemena was Black Hat Otokoto’s mentor, and that Otokoto killed her to make himself powerful. At the end of the novel, Sunny receives a box from her mother containing a letter from her grandmother and a photograph. Though Sunny looks nothing like Ozoemena—Ozoemena had dark skin—Sunny still feels connected to her grandmother.
Sunny’s Grandmother/Ozoemena Quotes in Akata Witch
The Akata Witch quotes below are all either spoken by Sunny’s Grandmother/Ozoemena or refer to Sunny’s Grandmother/Ozoemena. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 10
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“Listen. It was your grandmother, Ozoemena, who taught Otokoto all he knows. She was his mentor. And it was Otokoto who killed your grandmother in a ritual to steal her abilities as he stole her life. You want to know why he is so powerful? All you need to look at is who your grandmother was and who Otokoto was before he became the infamous Black Hat.”
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Chapter 18
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“You’ve made good progress, Sunny,” Anatov said.
“Thanks.”
“What I’d like you to think about, though, is who you are. Because within that knowledge is the key to how much you can learn.”
She frowned, thinking about what had just happened with her mother. “Oga,” she whispered, “these days I don’t really think I know who I am.” Anatov was silent. “What do you know of my grandmother? Who was she?”
Chapter 21
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“Grandma,” she whispered. As the old blind woman at the council meeting had said, Sunny looked nothing like her. But what did that matter? She smiled to herself and carefully put the picture back in the box.
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Sunny’s Grandmother/Ozoemena Quotes in Akata Witch
The Akata Witch quotes below are all either spoken by Sunny’s Grandmother/Ozoemena or refer to Sunny’s Grandmother/Ozoemena. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 10
Quotes
“Listen. It was your grandmother, Ozoemena, who taught Otokoto all he knows. She was his mentor. And it was Otokoto who killed your grandmother in a ritual to steal her abilities as he stole her life. You want to know why he is so powerful? All you need to look at is who your grandmother was and who Otokoto was before he became the infamous Black Hat.”
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Chapter 18
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“You’ve made good progress, Sunny,” Anatov said.
“Thanks.”
“What I’d like you to think about, though, is who you are. Because within that knowledge is the key to how much you can learn.”
She frowned, thinking about what had just happened with her mother. “Oga,” she whispered, “these days I don’t really think I know who I am.” Anatov was silent. “What do you know of my grandmother? Who was she?”
Chapter 21
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“Grandma,” she whispered. As the old blind woman at the council meeting had said, Sunny looked nothing like her. But what did that matter? She smiled to herself and carefully put the picture back in the box.
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