The Shadow Speaker is a young adult, first-person novel by Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor, which takes place in the year 2070.

[1] A deluxe revised edition of the novel, which was previously out of print, was published by DAW Books in 2023 under the title Shadow Speaker.

[2][3] Ejimafor "Ejii" Ugabe is a fourteen-year-old Muslim half-Wodaabe, half-Igbo girl.

The whole world is falling apart due to nuclear fallout in “the early twenty-first century”.

She uses the Many Minor Signs of the Apocalypse said in the Quran, such as guns not being available and a green haze that smells like flowers, among others.