Olu Alake described Okri’s presence at the centre as a homecoming of sorts because as he told it, Ben Okri who won the Booker Prize in 1991 for The Famished Road once “lived” at the Covent Garden premises of the Center.
Acknowledging the fact Ben Okri said, “You would find me at the bar having a beer and arguing with Dambudzo Marachera.”
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