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Title: Ben Okri- the new generation of African Writers
Review: The Famished Road in a sense, heralds a new era in African writing. The language and the sensibilities portrayed in the book are, for anyone who has lived in West Africa, so real. It is impossible really for a middle class person to fully understand the trials of a life of extreme poverty and the types of emotions faced by those who have no other experiences than poverty. Somehow,Ben Okri manages to open a window for us to try to understand what it is like. Anyone who has had a serious bout of malaria can understand a lot of the dream sequences. The humour in the book in the face of the grinding poverty is also a welcome change from the grimness of the subject matter. It is worth a read, if only to try to get a completely different perspective on life.
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