No man ever steps in the same river twice.Heraclitus
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
Nigerian poet and novelist · born 1959
Ben Okri is a Nigerian poet and novelist whose novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize in 1991. His lyrical work blends everyday realism with the spirit world of West African storytelling.
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