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Literature pictures life in a way to bring out the expected values and realities in man and the society. It captures the complex forms of engagement between the different components of a society and its people. Some literary critics, such as Mary Kolawole (2005:9), and Ayo Kehinde and Joy EbongMbipom (2011:62) buttressed this assertion, as they suggest that literature is not only an imitation of life, but also a concept which derives from certain sustainable principles. It is one of these principles that this paper attempts to discuss; that is, postcolonial realities in the chosen novels. Postcolonial realities is used in this paper to refer to human lives and experiences, which most postcolonial writers attempt to explicate in their works, and Ben Okri is not an exception. It is also common among African writers to reflect and narrate the African experiences, and issues that are associated with post-colonialism. Hardship, hunger, unemployment, depression, penury and oppression are recurrent motifs of postcolonial African states. These, among others are the contentions of this paper.

Postcolonial Realities in Ben Okri’s the Famished Road and Songs of Enchantment