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Ben Okri in conversation

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Booker prize-winning author Ben Okri will looking back at his writing career with Tim Cribb, an English Fellow at the University of Cambridge who was a visiting lecturer at the universities of Ife and Kwara State in Nigeria. 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 García Márquez. The event is free but booking in advance is required.

See more at: www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/ben-okri-conversation#sthash.

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