Ben Okri – 50 Greatest Nigerians of All Time?
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This video features: Ben Okri. Does he make the cut as one of the 50 Greatest Nigerians of All Time?
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This video features: BEN OKRI OBE
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Ben Okri OBE was born March 15, 1959 and is a Nigerian poet and novelist. He spent his childhood days in London, and then he and his family returned to Nigeria in 1968.
He later came back to England, studied at the University of Essex. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Westminster and the University of Essex and was awarded an OBE in the year 2001.
His first novel was Flowers and Shadows published in 1980; He is often tagged as one of Africa’s greatest writers. His best known work, The Famished Road, was awarded the 1991 Booker Prize. He also won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, and was awarded a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
His first-hand experiences of civil war in Nigeria are said to have inspired many of his works. He writes about the mundane and the metaphysical, the individual and the collective, drawing the reader into a world with vivid descriptions.
Ben Okri is a Vice-President of the English Centre for the International PEN, an organization of writers with 130 branches in over 100 countries. He is also a member of the United Kingdom’s Royal National Theatre. He now hails in London.
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This video series highlights the 50 GREATEST NIGERIANS OF ALL TIME.
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Our list of 50 Greatest Nigerians in History includes (but is not limited to:)
Abike Dabiri
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Agbani Darego
Ahmadu Bello
Bishop Ajayi Crowther
Alex Ekwueme
Aliko Dangote
Babatunde Olatunji
Bamanga Tukur
Ben Murray
Ben Okri
Bimbo Odukoya
Biship Francis Arinze
Bola Ige
Buchi Emecheta
Charles Soludo
Chief Osita Osadebe
Chinua Achebe
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Chioma Ajunwa
Chris Abani
Chris Anyawu
Dele Momodu
Dick Tiger
Dr Alban
Dora Akunyili
Ebenezer Obey
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
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Gani Fawehinmi
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Grace Williams
Hakeem Olajuwon
Ibrahim Gambari
Ifueko Omoigui
Jimi Agbaje
JJ Okocha
King Sunny Ade (Sunday Adeniyi)
Michael Adenuga
Moshood Kashimawo (MKO) Abiola
Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Nuhu Ribadu
Nwankwo Kanu
Obafemi Awolowo (Awo!)
Obiageli Ezekwesili
Odemegwu Ojukwu
Okey Ndibe
Olusegun Obasanjo
Patrick Utomi
Philip Emeagwali
Sade Adu
Samuel Peter
Seal
Tunde Baiyewu
Wole Soyinka
Yakubu Gowon
Muhammadu Buhari
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