BEN OKRI
Ben Okri: ‘We rarely use an African text to illustrate the human condition’
Monday 19 May 2025
In ‘African Stories’, award-winning Nigerian writer Ben Okri assembles a landmark collection – bringing 36 African short stories, diverse in language and perspective – on par with the global greats.
Ben Okri says Africa has been poorly served in short stories. “The world knows Chekhov, Flaubert, or De Maupassant, but we rarely call upon an African text to illustrate some aspect of the human condition,” the Nigerian 1991 Booker Prize award winner for The Famished Road tells The Africa Report.
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