Friday, 6 April 2012

The Famished Road by Ben Okri


”A man can wander round the planet and still not move an inch. A man can have so much light in his mind and still not see what’s right in front of him.”
Yes, it is true: “Okri is incapable of writing a boring sentence.”  He paints (not write) each situation.
The Famished Road narrates the politics, history and future of a nation using the Nigerian Abiku myth. What /who is an Abiku? Simply put, a child born to die. 
The Abiku myth also has a universal feature.

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