Young Nigerian Author’s Afrofuturist Novel Has Been Picked Up By Fox Studios

Tomi Adeyemi, is the Nigerian-American author behind the West African-set fantasy novel Children of Blood and Bone and it’s just been picked up by major film studio, Fox 2000.  What’s more impressive, is that the book hasn’t even been published yet.The company has acquired the 23-year-old writer’s debut novel—which has been described as “Avatar: The Last Airbender, meets Black Lives Matter— via IFTTT