Born 1959, Ben Okri is a Nigerian poet and writer, writing primarily in the postcolonial and postmodern tradition. Okri's success as a writer began when he published his first novel Flowers and Shadows in 1980. He served West Africa magazine as poetry editor from 1983 to 1986, and was a regular contributor to the BBC World Service between 1983 and 1985.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Okri
1959-03-15
Urhobo
Nigeria
English
Essex University
An African Elegy (London: Jonathan Cape, 1992); Wild (London: Rider & Co., 2012); A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn (London: Head of Zeus, 2021)
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