List of Famous people with last name Okri

Ben Okri

First Name Ben

Last Name Okri

Born on March 15, 1959 (age 67)

Born in Niger State

Ben Okri is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions, and has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez.

Know him/her

Don't know him/her

    index: 1x 0.019856929779053s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.012870073318481s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.012822866439819s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0070657730102539s
router_page: 1x 0.0062770843505859s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.0055031776428223s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.0029749870300293s
t_/blocks/person-card: 1x 0.0029339790344238s
headline: 2x 0.0024428367614746s
qids: 2x 0.0014808177947998s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00040197372436523s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00026917457580566s
head-facts: 1x 0.00024795532226562s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 1.6927719116211E-5s
related: 1x 5.0067901611328E-6s
using-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
----- END OF DUMP (2026-08-14 12:01:08)  -----