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Maya Jaggi

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/ 31 August 2007

Free spirit

Ben Okri has been described as a ‘literary visionary’ and ‘irritatingly pseudomystical’. His latest novel, <i>Starbook</i>, continues his quest to capture Africa, writes Maya Jaggi.

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/ 31 May 2007

The voice of conscience

When Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka visited the Hay Cartagena festival in Colombia earlier this year, in a walled Spanish colonial town on the Caribbean coast, children in the streets instantly thought they recognised the black man with leonine grey hair. But they couldn’t decide whether he was Kofi Annan or Don King.

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/ 20 August 2004

Isle of writers

As Athenians sweated to finish the Olympic stadiums, an Orthodox priest on the island of Paros, about three hours away, was intoning over a modest dwelling that may yet crown Greece’s cultural Olympiad. He was inaugurating the country’s first House of Literature.

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/ 12 December 2003

Stance of pride

The first black woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature, Toni Morrison’s new novel, <i>Love</i>, explores the changes wrought by the American civil-rights movement and continues her engagement with love and history. Maya Jaggi reports.

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/ 28 June 2002

Poet on the front line

A cultural icon for black artists since the 1970s, Linton Kwesi Johnson is known as a performer and recording artist as much as a writer, for poetry that blends the bass and rhythm of reggae music with his deep spoken voice. "It’s words that I’m about," he says.

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