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Tony Allen feat. Ben Okri & Skepta:
🎵 Cosmosis

#TonyAllen #BenOkri #Skepta

https://open.spotify.com/track/0uGZU19VEM0QPcmyBnLPF5

"Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love...
Ben Okri"

#BenOkri #Quote

Nigerian-British poet Ben Okri was born this day in 1959. #birthday #quotes #BenOkri #poets

“His writing takes on the great riddles of existence—freedom and consciousness, truth and illusion, suffering and transcendence—spinning them into shimmering, allegorical texts.” Anderson Tepper on the work of Nigerian British writer Ben Okri. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/books/ben-okri.html #NewYorkTimes #BenOkri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEASwdrr2LQ

Ben Okri on writing his Booker Prize-winning novel 'The Famished Road'

#TheBookerPrize #BenOkri #TheFamishedRoad

Ben Okri on writing his Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road | The Booker Prize

"In a new film made exclusively for the Booker Prizes, Ben Okri, the first Black winner of the Booker Prize, explains how he had to create fresh techniques to tell a story rooted in his African childhood"

#BenOkri #BlackMastodon #BookerPrize #Literature #Art #Books #BlackTwitter #AfricanWriters #BlackWriters #AfricanAmerican #Poetry #Documentary #Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEASwdrr2LQ

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix

Tony Allen feat. Ben Okri & Skepta:
🎵 Cosmosis

#TonyAllen #BenOkri #Skepta

https://open.spotify.com/track/0uGZU19VEM0QPcmyBnLPF5

@omololaogunyemi

And it calls out to so many other stories.

The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by Amos Tutuola, one of the first Anglophone African books — no doubts inspired #BenOkri

But also through child-spirit chasing their parents, it speaks to the #Igbo notion of #ogbanje.

I'm wondering how much #TheFamishedRoad disturbed/moved Akwaeke Emezi's #Freshwater story?