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It’s been 30 years since The Famished Road won the Booker Prize and Ben Okri’s trilogy of novels have been redesigned to reach a whole new generation of readers. The new covers take a dynamic, layered approach making use of lots of colour to evoke a sense of energy. Design and illustration by @kishanrajanidesign #benokri #bookerprizewinner #thefamishedroad #bookdesign #bookcover #newbooks #jacketdesign #graphicdesign #coverdesign #bookillustration https://www.instagram.com/p/CVS3DPztxB-/?utm_medium=tumblr

“Nations and people are largely the stories they feed themselves. If they tell themselves stories that are lies, they will suffer the consequences of those lies. If they tell themselves stories that face their own truths, they will free their histories for future flowerings.” Ben Okri. This is my favorite quote from Ben Okri’s book “The Famished Road” . . 📷: Nana Osei - 2019 . . #la #labadibeach #accra #ghana #africa #stories #history #literature #benokri #benokriquotes #thefamishedroad #novel #nations #flowers #ashantiimmigrant #streetstyle #streetphotography #everydayafrica #dynamicafrica #visiterlafrique #kid #truck #accrawedey (at Accra, Ghana) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs2afecAOsy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=snbo0n8awrpp

Ben Okri, from Belonging

(via Poetry and Soul: What to Expect from Ben Okri's 'Wild: Poems')

“I love your silence. It is so wise. It listens. It invites warmth. I love your loneliness. It is brave. It makes the universe want to protect you. You have the loneliness that all true heroes have, a loneliness that is a deep sea, within which the fishes of mystery dwell. I love your quest. It is noble. It has greatness in it. Only one who is born under a blessed star would set sail across the billowing waves and the wild squalls, because of a dream. I love your dream. It is magical. Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the world, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of thing, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.”