literature medium Fill in the Blank

Ben Okri won the 1991 Booker Prize for 'The Famished Road', which features a spirit-child narrator known in Yoruba mythology as an ________.

  1. Ogbanje
  2. Abiku
  3. Orisha
  4. Egungun

Answer: Abiku

The protagonist Azaro is an 'abiku' (spirit-child), destined to cycle through repeated births and deaths, serving as a metaphor for Nigeria's turbulent post-independence history.

Topic Post-Colonial Literature
Exam Relevance SSC CGL, Banking PO
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