In July, author and professor Nnedi Okorafor revealed that her Afrofuturist novel Who Fears Death – which focuses on a young woman who goes on a post-apocalyptic quest in a future Africa landscape to find her mother's killer – would become a new HBO series with Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin attached as an executive producer. 

The news came as a great surprise to fans and many have been on the edge of their seats anticipating more news about the series. According to Shadow And Act, Martin made it clear that Okorafor will have a substantial role in bringing the book to life and that he is only one of a handful of executive producers. 

"I will be an executive producer on WHO FEARS DEATH but I will not be the executive producer, i.e. the showrunner. That's an important distinction. Should we move forward, there will be a number of executive producers, and probably some co-executive producers and supervising producers and producers as well. This is television," he wrote in a  Livejournal post in July. 

As months rolled on and more news announcing writers and producers to the project was revealed, Okorafor has been placed on the sidelines and Martin has moved to the forefront. In a tweet on Sept. 15, Okorafor let her frustrations be known garnering several thousand retweets and likes. 

After the tweet calling out the A.V. Club for the misstep went viral, the popular entertainment site fixed the error.

But that is not the only time this has happened. Media outlets have often used Martin to attract attention to news about the project. And that is not the issue. The problem, as many claim on Twitter, is that Okorafor is being erased from her own book adaptation. 

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Most times her picture isn't even featured in the article. 

Although the press has been good, Okorafor isn't the one receiving the attention. She goes into great detail about this in a Facebook post stating that her book has been miscategorized, and Martin has come under attack for being attached. 

With the added heat on the Confederate controversy, HBO has to get this right and get Okorafor in front of her project.