Ben Okri Essays
Orality and Transformation in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road College
The Famished Road
‘Life is full of riddles that only the dead can answer.’
The ‘dead’ are important to Ben Okri’s The Famished Road in a number of ways. His narrator Azuro is ‘Abiku’; the ‘spirit’ child of Yoruba mythology, predestined to an early death and...
Ignorance in the Famished Road 12th Grade
The Famished Road
Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1991) captures the innocent perspective of a child caught in the turmoil of Nigeria's independence. Azaro, the young protagonist, grows up in an unnamed rural village in the midst of change [presumed to be Nigeria]....