AuthorBen Okri
DisciplinePoet
Born15 March 1959
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Biography
Ben Okri OBE FRSL is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions and has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
T.S. Eliot
"This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper."
Dr. Seuss"I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you."
Nelson Mandela"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."