The Role of the Artist in Times of Crisis with Ben Okri
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Is Writing a Weapon of Activism?
Ben Oakree: Art is most powerful when it brings us to a profound crisis. Is writing a religious or a spiritual practice? And for me, it's many, many things indeed. It's a quest for truth, a political tool, a spiritual practice, absolutely. In Nigeria and Africa, I come from a place where there's much suffering,. Where are politicians? Don't care about the people as much as they should; have helped to give rise to an unhappy history. A spiritual practice is its own very, very particular thing but it informs everything that you do if you let it. We're richer, we're fuller in all the things that we do if it is informed by
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