Robert Fraser stresses the conciliating force of Ben Okri's writing
and his vision of an ideal community beyond the strife-ridden
present. This is the first ever full-length study of Ben Okri's
life and work based on twenty years of friendship and close
attention to his texts. It argues that his writing is best
appreciated against the background of his early exposure to the
Nigerian Civil War (1967-70) and his attempts since then to forge a
medium of conciliation through literature. We live by stories, Okri
once wrote, We also live in them. Following him from Lagos to
London and from obscurity to recognition, Fraser interprets Okri's
successive books as refashionings of this inner and outer narrative
space by strenuous imagining and generous exhortation. Okri's
fiction, essays and poems beckon us through the shabby but vibrant
streets of our strife-ridden metropolis towards a potential city of
justice, sincerity and peace.
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