TWO NIGERIAN [LITERARY] SPIRITS IN LONDON
Guest Blogger “ If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die." Duke Orsino TWELFTH NIGHT: Act 1, Scene 1. The two Nigerian literary spirits in London, UK, Ben Okri and Omohan Ebhodaghe have been likened to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 27 January 1756 - 5 December 1791 and Ludwig Van Beethoven, 17 December 1770 - 26 March 1827. Wolfgang was a prolific composer of over 600 works of the classical era while Ludwig carefully chose his works. Ben Okri ( 15 March, 1959 ) was born in Minna, Niger state of Nigeria to an Igbo mother and an Urhobo father called Grace and Silver Okri. He schooled at Urhobo college in Warri and later returned to England in 1978 for a study of comparative literature at the university of Essex. He did not complete his BA degree programme due to lack of finances. He later became poetry editor for the West Africa magazine as well as worked for the BBC. He was a vice-president...