Ben Okri won the 1991 Booker Prize for 'The Famished Road', which features a spirit-child narrator known in Yoruba mythology as an ________.
- Ogbanje
- Abiku
- Orisha
- Egungun
Answer: Abiku
The protagonist Azaro is an 'abiku' (spirit-child), destined to cycle through repeated births and deaths, serving as a metaphor for Nigeria's turbulent post-independence history.