FTP, name this author who wrote about Azaro's adventures with Yoruba spirits The Famished Road.
He claimed that "cynicism is god" in this fractured age in an essay about "stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness," and he dubbed all storytellers poets in that essay collection, "A way of being free."  Short story collections by this man include Stars of the New Curfew and one that contains a story about Anderson, Incidents at the Shrine.  His best-known work features an abiku boy who nearly dies so many times that his parents rename him after Lazarus, and who has such a crazy-ass encounter with a three-headed spirit that only a juju ritual can save him.  FTP, name this author who wrote about Azaro's adventures with Yoruba spirits The Famished Road.
He claimed that "cynicism is god" in this fractured age in an essay about "stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness," and he dubbed all storytellers poets in that essay collection, "A way of being free."  
Ben {Okri} (2) [AH]