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

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

#TheBookerPrize #BenOkri #TheFamishedRoad

@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?

@omololaogunyemi

#TheFamishedRoad is absolutely necessary for any Anglophone bookworm.

The narrative style is totally enchanting, with jerks and honey-sticky slows, with feverish madness and bitter sand-on-teeth hardship sliding between each other like aspects of the same being.