Ben Okri is the same generation as me but our lives couldn't be more different. I'm always intrigued to learn how lives turn out because of one's individual history, challenges and circumstance. Ben is a novelist, story writer and poet and was born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father. He grew up in London before returning to Nigeria with his family in 1968. community.feminenza.org
Nigerian novelist, short story writer, and poet, one of the leading African writers. In his work Okri has experimented with new literary forms, different styles, genres, and traditions. Okri started as a realist, with postcolonial themes. After explori www.kirjasto.sci.fi/okri.htm
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Ben Okri. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Okri
He is a novelist and poet. He was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for his services to literature. www.imdb.com/name/nm1631300/
