Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians. - Ben Okri

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Ben Okri: "Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians."

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African	Appetite	Characters	Country
Dickens	Dwellers	Example	Falstaff
Ghetto	Largeness	Life	Literature
Nigerians	Shakespeare	Spirit	Turgenev
Very	Writer

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