“In the beginning, there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.” THE FAMISHED ROAD I remember these lines. These were some of the first literary lines, I had read and memorized. The famishedContinue reading “When Azaro walked on a Famished Road!”
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Stars of the new Curfew: Ben Okri
“When I looked round she had disappeared. I began, I think, to hallucinate. I saw the secrets of the town dancing in the street: young men with the disease that melted their faces, beautiful young girls with snakes coming out of their ears, I saw skeletons dancing with fat women.” A collection of six storiesContinue reading “Stars of the new Curfew: Ben Okri”
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