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A flatlay on a light-brown, wooden surface of Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor in the centre between a partially visible glass mug with yellow and red flowers lying on one side in the top left-hand corner, and a spoon with loose kola nut (aka bissy in Jamaica) on a white, lace-edged, paper doily in the lower right-hand corner. Some of the bissy is scattered on the doily. The book cover design features the image of a young, barefoot Black woman gazing at a red, desert landscape with mustard-coloured hills in the distance. Her thick dreadlocks are in a ponytail, and she’s wearing a thin, dark-grey wrap dress and a six-ringed armlet on her left arm. Her exposed back is to the viewer, and the shadow-like wings of a vulture hover in front of her as if they’re a part of her body. A white-hot sun blazes above her head, so close that it seems she could touch it. Knowing what the protagonist's powers are like, she probably could!