There was a long silence as we swam around in the strange currents of Dad's words. - Ben Okri

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There was a long silence as we swam around in the strange currents of Dad's words.

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About Ben Okri

Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian poet and novelist.

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I held you in the square
And felt the evening
Re-order itself around
Your smile.

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He saw the world in which black people always suffered and he didn’t like it. He saw a world in which human beings suffered so needlessly from Antipodes to Equator, and he didn’t like it either. He saw our people drowning in poverty, in famine, drought, in divisiveness and the blood of war. He saw our people always preyed upon by other powers, manipulated by the Western world, our history and achievements rigged out of existence.

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