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Ben Okri

Ben Okri’s New Story Begins 20,000 Years After the Apocalypse

by Angeline Peterson

Features June 03, 2020

Books That Go with Wine and Books That Don’t

by Brittle Paper

Features May 07, 2020

Spice Up Your Reading with These 16 Short Story Collections by African Authors from Indie Presses

by Brittle Paper

Features• Fiction April 29, 2020

8 Trilogies by African Writers That Will Fill Up All That Lockdown Time

by Brittle Paper

Features April 22, 2020

Reading with The Sense of Death All Around Us – Ben Okri

by Brittle Paper

Features January 28, 2020

Tsitsi Dangarembga on Reading Namwali Serpell, Zukiswa Wanner, & Why Ben Okri’s Latest Novel Is Like a Creative Writing Course

by Otosirieze Obi-Young

Features January 05, 2020

Happy 82nd Birthday, Ngūgī wa Thiong’o! Read These Introductions to His Novels by Ben Okri, Namwali Serpell, Uzodinma Iweala, Abdulrazak Gurnah, & Moses Isegawa

by Brittle Paper

Features November 08, 2019

Novels by Achebe, Adichie, Okri, Gyasi, & Coetzee Make BBC’s List of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World

by Chukwuebuka Ibeh