In one of his stories, th
In one of his stories, the prostitute Dede cuts her throat to avoid being sexually abused by soldiers and Marjomi and Emokhai lament their poverty. In another, the shooting of a disfigured woman by three soldiers on the evening of an eclipse is witnessed by the boy Omovo. Those two stories, In the City of Red Dust and In the Shadow of War, were published in his collection Stars of the New Curfew. This man's poetry collections include Mental Fight, and he published a collection of essays, A Way of Being Free. In another work, an artist loses his paintings to the authorities and dreams about escaping to the US with his neighbor's wife. That novel, Dangerous Love, was preceded by such works Flowers and Shadows. In another novel, politicians from the Party of the Rich distribute contaminated milk, the central family is aided by Madame Koto, and the protagonist's father relates the story of a giant whose stomach is washed onto the titular path. For 10 points, identify this Nigerian author who created the abiku Azaro in his Booker prize winning The Famished Road.
In one of his stories, the prostitute Dede cuts her throat to avoid being sexually abused by soldiers and Marjomi and Emokhai lament their poverty.
Ben Okri