Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. Considered one of the foremost African authors...

The Famished Road is a novel by Nigerian author Ben Okri, the first book in a trilogy that continues with Songs of Enchantment (1993) and Infinite Riches...

critics rarely regard Othello among Shakespeare's greatest tragedies. As Ben Okri has said: If Othello did not begin as a play about race, then its history...

Astonishing the Gods is a novel by Nigerian writer Ben Okri. On 5 November 2019 BBC News listed Astonishing the Gods on its list of the 100 most influential...

Flowers and Shadows is a novel by Ben Okri, a Nigerian author who won the Booker Prize award in 1991. The novel was set in Lagos. The novel portrays the...

(UK/Zimbabwe) in 2007, and Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania) in 2021. In 1991, Ben Okri's novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize. The Caine Prize for African...

Dangerous Love is a 1996 novel by Ben Okri set in Lagos of the 1970s. The novel is a remake of an earlier book, The Landscapes Within (1981). It is set...

have appeared at the salon to read their work to live audiences include Ben Okri, Lionel Shriver, Elizabeth Day, A.L. Kennedy, William Boyd, Graham Swift...

Songs of Enchantment is a novel by Nigerian author Ben Okri, the second book in a trilogy that started with The Famished Road (1991) and continues with...

televangelist, politician Ifeanyi Okowa former governor of Delta State Ben Okri, writer, Nigerian poet and novelist Sunday Oliseh, Football Manager and...