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Lamb is the word Leopard People use to refer to non-magical people. It’s always capitalized.
Lamb Quotes in Akata Witch
The Akata Witch quotes below are all either spoken by Lamb or refer to Lamb. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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“But I can tell there’s more to you. I just know it.”
“What do you mean, more?”
Chichi smiled mysteriously. “People say stuff about people like you. That you’re all ghost, or a half and half, one foot in this world and one foot in another.” She paused. “That you can…see things.”
Sunny rolled her eyes. Not this again, she thought. So cliché. Everyone thinks the old lady, the hunchback, the crazy man, and the albino have magical evil powers. “Whatever,” she grumbled. She didn’t want to think about the candle.
Chichi laughed. “You’re right, those are silly stereotypes about albinos. But in your case, I think there’s something to it.”
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Her father believed that all one needed to succeed in life was an education. He had gone to school for many years to become a barrister, and then gone on to be the most successful child in his family. Sunny’s mother was an MD, and often talked about how excelling in school had opened opportunities to her that girls only two decades before didn’t normally get. So Sunny believed in education, too. But here was Chichi’s mother, surrounded by the hundreds of books she’d read, living in a decrepit old mud hut with her daughter.
Chapter 4
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“But I’ve always known of my Leopard inheritance and I’ve always been able to do small things like make mosquitoes stay away, warm my bathwater, things like that. Initiation meant something different to me than to you. It’s more a mark of beginning my life’s journey. Yours was, too—but it was also the actual beginning of your Self.”
“Money and material things make you king or queen of the Lamb world. You can do no wrong, you can do anything.
“Leopard People are different. The only way you can earn chittim is by learning. The more you learn, the more chittim you earn. Knowledge is the center of all things. The Head Librarian of the Obi Library of Leopard Knocks is the keeper of the greatest stock of knowledge in West Africa.”
Chapter 5
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She closed her eyes and soaked in the warm light. She didn’t need to stand in there for an hour to know—she knew deep in her skin. The sunshine felt like a warm friend, not an angry enemy. She didn’t need her umbrella anymore.
“Oh my goodness,” she whispered. “I can play soccer!”
Realizing what she was was the beginning of something, all right…but it was also the end of something else.
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Chapter 9
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“The second and third are the university, for true scholars. Third levelers, Ndibus, who want to keep evolving.”
“My mother goes there,” Chichi said proudly. “She’s one of the younger students, though.”
“Younger?” Chichi’s mother was about her mother’s age.
“It’s not like with Lambs,” Orlu said. “Age is one of the requirements to even start at the Obi University of Pre-Scholars. You have to be over forty-two.”
Chapter 14
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One of the other boys in white laughed and said something in a language she didn’t understand. Two other boys in white laughed hard, too. There was a rise in the chatter from the audience. She was used to ridicule, but this hurt more than usual. This wasn’t just about her being albino, this was about her being a girl—an ugly girl. Stupid boys. Stupid, blockhead, idiot boys, she thought.
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Lamb Term Timeline in Akata Witch
The timeline below shows where the term Lamb appears in Akata Witch. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2
...learn they’re a Leopard Person—and it doesn’t help that the world is full of “idiot Lambs.” As a free agent, the reader is part of the Leopard society and kind of...
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Chapter 3
Sasha shares that his parents moved to an all-Lamb neighborhood, so he got into fights—and Orlu snaps that Sasha set a masquerade on a...
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Chapter 4
...the Obi Library. She’s the most respected. Seeing Sunny’s confusion, Orlu interjects that in the Lamb world, money and material things are the most important. But in the Leopard world, people...
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Chapter 6
...flies open to Chapter Four once she gets close to it. But she reads that Lambs focus on attaining perfection. Leopard culture, the book says, isn’t like this. All Leopard People,...
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...instead of an ebett, Anatov laughs that she’d never find an ebett’s head at a Lamb market—ebetts are albino sheep with spirits that go to the spirit world when they sleep....
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...he’s a troublemaker and has a photographic memory. Chichi is much the same. In the Lamb world, they’d be diagnosed with ADHD and medicated—and when the medications don’t work, they’ll be...
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Chapter 7
...out of banks. Leopard scammers, though, are supposedly working on supercomputers that will bring down Lamb economies in seconds. Isong won’t write any more on the subject; free agents should refuse...
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Chapter 8
...toward Jibaku, her phone rings—it’s Orlu, and he warns her to not use juju on Lambs. If she does, she’ll have to go to the Library Council for punishment. As he...
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Chapter 9
...Middleman or Sellout? She explains that Frobenius was a German Leopard man who almost told Lambs that Atlantis is near Victoria Island. They then discuss the knife juju book, which Chichi...
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Chapter 10
...In all caps, the book warns the reader to keep their Leopard identity secret from Lamb friends and relations, as there are terrible consequences for telling the truth.
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Chapter 12
The funky train takes Anatov, Sasha, Orlu, Sunny, and Chichi to the Abuja Lamb market. At a shaded part of the market, they find Junk Man’s booth. He clearly...
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Chapter 13
...leopard at the top of the arch, which is animate and inspects festival goers for Lambs. It seems to stare right at Sunny as she enters the festival. The festival itself...
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Chapter 15
...her whole life. They’re spirits that enter the physical world through termite mounds. In the Lamb world, people dress as masquerades and pretend—but in the Leopard world, masquerades are real. The...
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Chapter 17
Over the next two weeks, Sunny does well in Lamb school and studies hard for her Leopard studies. Chichi refuses to speak of Sugar Cream...
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Chapter 18
...corrupt. He was an oil dealer who worked with Americans, and he’s always sought chittim, Lamb money, and power. Because he wants power, he’s been working on a forbidden juju—which will...
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Chapter 21
...Ozoemena Nimm, a Nimm warrior. She explains that she was rebellious, so she found a Lamb man and had children with him. She didn’t realize this would lead to living a...
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...says she loves her grandchild, and warns the reader to make friends and forgive her Lamb family members.
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Epilogue
The rains are finally over, and Sunny is back in Lamb school. At lunch, Orlu lets Sunny know that Anatov will probably give them a few...
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