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What People Get Wrong about Ben Okri’s Books.

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By Ben Okri
| rpublc.com
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‘A palette unlike anything in the west’: Ben Okri, Yinka Shonibare and more on how Nigerian art revived Britain’s cultural landscape

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By Ben Okri, Emma Loffhagen
| Inkl
It is important to stress that these were not artists creating in isolation. They were in touch with the currents of world art, as can be seen by the responses to cubism in many works of sculpture. It was not a response as such but a taking back, a retrieval, of what cubism took from Africa. The other area in which this Nigerian modernism revealed itself is in the Nigerian novel.
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“In his company, you could not be lazy’: remembering my friend Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o -

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By Ben Okri
| TheNEWS Nigeria
Sunday, June 1, 2025 5:54 pm By Ben Okri A giant of African literature whose best works existed between the political and the personal, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was warm, funny, and friendly – and liked to bet on my pool games. Among the African writers who emerged in the middle of the 20th century, the most political undoubtedly was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.
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