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Ben Okri

Ben Okri 0000000121401864 Ben Okri, an award-winning poet and novelist, was born to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father in Nigeria. He had his early education in London, furthered his studies in England...

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A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn

by Ben Okri

A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn Ben Okri 9781635423082 Poetry Other Press (NY) Other Press From the renowned Booker Prize-winning author, a powerful collection of poems covering topics of the da...

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Prayer for the Living

by Ben Okri

Prayer for the Living Ben Okri 9781617758638 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri’s new collection of short stories blurs parallel realities and...

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African Stories

by Ben Okri

African Stories Ben Okri 9781101908334 Fiction Everyman’s Library Everyman’s Library A Pocket Classics hardcover collection of a century of 36 terrific stories by major writers from across Africa, sel...

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Wild: Poems

by Ben Okri

Wild: Poems Ben Okri 9781635422924 Poetry Other Press (NY) Other Press A rich, joyful collection of poems on living and loving from the Booker Prize-winning author. Freedom is the most precious com...

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Stars Of The New Curfew

by Ben Okri

Stars Of The New Curfew Ben Okri 9780099283881 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House To enter the world of Ben Okri’s stories is to surrender to a new reality. Set in the chaotic streets of Lagos and the...

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The Freedom Artist

by Ben Okri

The Freedom Artist Ben Okri 9781617757914 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Okri’s somber, fablelike novel is a call to rally against oppressive institutions and for broader social consciousness. I...

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An African Elegy: Poems

by Ben Okri

An African Elegy: Poems Ben Okri 9781635423105 Poetry Other Press (NY) Other Press This moving poetry collection from the Booker Prize-winning author finds strength and hope while reflecting on the co...

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Astonishing the Gods

by Ben Okri

Astonishing the Gods Ben Okri 9781635422658 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press One of the BBC’s “100 Novels That Shaped Our World,” a much-needed fable that could change how we see ourselves and our...

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Wild

by Ben Okri

Wild Ben Okri 9781846043307 Poetry Rider Books Penguin Random House Ben Okri is a prolific Booker-Prize winning novelist and essayist, but has published only two collections of poetry. The first was "...

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The Landscapes Within

by Ben Okri

The Landscapes Within Ben Okri 9780582785397 Fiction Prentice Hall Press Prentice Hall Press In 1981, Nigerian author Ben Okri published The Landscapes Within, a novel about a young painter’s life and...

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An African Elegy Paperback

by Ben Okri

An African Elegy Paperback Ben Okri 9780099736011 Poetry Vintage Books USA Penguin Random House Dreams are the currency of Okri’s writing, particularly in this first book of poems, An African Elegy, b...

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The Age of Magic

by Ben Okri

The Age of Magic Ben Okri 9781635422689 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press In this enchanting novel from the Booker Prize-winning author, a group of world-weary travelers discover the meaning of lif...

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Mental Fight: An Epic Poem

by Ben Okri

Mental Fight: An Epic Poem Ben Okri 9781635422900 Poetry Other Press (NY) Other Press An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance, and environmental destruction, from the Booker Prize-winni...

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Changing Destiny (paperback)

by Ben Okri

Changing Destiny (paperback) Ben Okri 9781635422269 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press A bold new adaptation of the 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem about Warrior King Sinuhe that captures the essence o...

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Dangerous Love

by Ben Okri

Dangerous Love Ben Okri 9781635422665 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press With the simplicity and innocence of Narayan or Seth, he tells the story of a young man, Omovo, an office-worker and artist w...

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The Last Gift of the Master Artists

by Ben Okri

The Last Gift of the Master Artists Ben Okri 9781635422795 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press The Booker Prize-winning author, a child of the Nigerian Civil War, reinvents through the story of the A...

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Every Leaf a Hallelujah

by Ben Okri

Every Leaf a Hallelujah Ben Okri 9781635422702 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press An environmental fairytale that speaks eloquently to the most pressing issues of our times, from the Booker Prize–wi...

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Changing Destiny

by Ben Okri

Changing Destiny Ben Okri 9781350260122 Fiction Methuen Drama Bloomsbury Press Two actors, a thousand characters, and the story of how a kingdom is changed… An epic new adaptation of the 4,000-year...

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Time for New Dreams

by Ben Okri

Time for New Dreams Ben Okri 9781846042683 Poetry Rider Books Penguin Random House Booker Prize-winning novelist and one of Britain’s foremost poets, Ben Okri is a passionate advocate of the written w...

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Starbook

by Ben Okri

Starbook Ben Okri 9781846040917 Fiction Random House Uk Ltd Random House Uk Ltd At one level, Starbook tells the delicate story of a prince and a maiden who are both tested by trials in a mythical lan...

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Astonishing The Gods

by Ben Okri

Astonishing The Gods Ben Okri 9780753808641 Fiction Phoenix Orion Publishing Group This is a story for all ages, set in a time and place best known to lovers of fairytales and myths. It is a modern f...

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Infinite Riches (The Famished Road)

by Ben Okri

Infinite Riches (The Famished Road) Ben Okri 9780753806807 Fiction Phoenix Orion Publishing Group Azaro is a spirit child. He made a pact with his spirit companions that when he was born he would die...

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A Way Of Being Free

by Ben Okri

A Way Of Being Free Ben Okri 9780753801413 Fiction Phoenix Orion Publishing Group In this inspirational volume, the Booker Prize-winning author of THE FAMISHED ROAD makes essays into an art form. The ...

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The Famished Road

by Ben Okri

The Famished Road Ben Okri 9780385425131 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri’s Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’...

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Incidents At The Shrine

by Ben Okri

Incidents At The Shrine Ben Okri 9780099983002 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Incidents at the Shrine is the first collection of stories by the author of 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Fam...

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Songs Of Enchantment

by Ben Okri

Songs Of Enchantment Ben Okri 9780385471572 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House In this remarkable sequel to his Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road, Okri continues the story of the spirit-ch...

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The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them

by Ekow Eshun

The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them Ekow Eshun 9780063450523 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins “Moving, thoughtful, redemptive. The Strangers is an important book. ...

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Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted

by Ben Okri

Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted Ben Okri 9781635425284 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press In this modern fable with the impish magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a masked ba...

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Tiger Work: Stories, Essays and Poems about Climate Change

by Ben Okri

Tiger Work: Stories, Essays and Poems about Climate Change Ben Okri 9781635423365 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press A Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker In this poignant, timely collection, the...

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood

by Ben Okri

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood Ben Okri 9783775753319 Nonfiction Hatje Cantz Hatje Cantz Verlag The first book on Basquiat’s ingenious uses of found objects and unconventional materials. ...

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Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature

by Kevin Powell

Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature Kevin Powell 9780471442561 Fiction Wiley Wiley Read more about the contributors to this fantastic volume of work “Kevin Powell is...

Events

Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport

Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport Banjul The Gambia An African Diaspora, One World, Pan African experience Mboka means ‘One Family’ in Wolof and will offer festival attendees a...

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Rise Like Lions: Poetry for the Many

by Ben Okri

Rise Like Lions: Poetry for the Many Ben Okri 9781473676145 Poetry Hodder & Stoughton General Division Hodder & Stoughton Publishing

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The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age

by Ben Okri

The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age Ben Okri 9781786694508 Fiction Head of Zeus Head of Zeus A lamp found in the attic of a London house inspires a sequence of images and writings. Meditations or storie...

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In Arcadia

by Ben Okri

In Arcadia Ben Okri 9780753817070 Fiction Orion Orion Publishing Group A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey. Inspired by a painting and financed by a myster...

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Mental Fight

by Ben Okri

Mental Fight Ben Okri 9780753810675 Fiction Phoenix Orion Publishing Group This epic poem is intended as a celebration of humanity’s achievements at the end of this millennium, and a rallying cry for ...

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Tales of Freedom

by Ben Okri

Tales of Freedom Ben Okri 9781846041594 Fiction Rider Books Penguin Random House  

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Birds Of Heaven

by Ben Okri

Birds Of Heaven Ben Okri 9781857995930 Fiction Weidenfeld & Nicolson Orion Publishing Group This text contains two inspirational essays from the author of "The Famished Road", on the meaning of langua...

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Flowers and Shadows (African Classics)

by Ben Okri

Flowers and Shadows (African Classics) Ben Okri 9780582035362 Fiction Longman Penguin Random House  

Book Review

The Miseducation of Obi Ifeanyi by Chinedu Achebe

by Robert Fleming

The Miseducation of Obi Ifeanyi by Chinedu Achebe Robert Fleming Book Review Some of the world’s finest fiction has been written by Nigerians. Let’s look at the writers from that area in...

Articles

10 Books African-Americans Should Read & Have in the Home

by Troy Johnson

10 Books African-Americans Should Read & Have in the Home Troy Johnson Article Today, at 5PM EST, I'll be participating in a live interview with Paul Billings host of the "The Beat" on WUVS-LP 103.7F...

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Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging

by Caryl Phillips

Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging Caryl Phillips 9780679781547 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House    Shakespeare called Othello "an extravagant and wheeling stranger/Of here and every...

Authors

Leila Aboulela

Leila Aboulela 0000000108556255 Sudanese-born author Leila Aboulela writes in English, exploring identity, migration and Islamic spirituality. Her work, influenced by her move from Sudan to Scotland ...

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