Ben Okri's book The Famished Road was first published in 1991 and won the Booker Prize. It is a brilliant narrative and a classic. Ben Okri tells the story of Azaro (coined from the name Lazarus), a spirit child whom the Yorubas refer to as abiku. Azaro shuttled between the land of the living and the spirit world until he finally decided to stay. Having spent so much in celebrating his return, his parents became impoverished and could barely feed.

Though The Famished Road was written over two decades ago, the political tension and chaos in the book are not much different from what we have today as we are still being fed what Okri described as "the rotten milk of politics".

Azaro was a wandering child, hence, the book contains a series of dream sequence which I find quite scary.

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