The songs of Sufferings: Position Grand Predicaments Ben Okri in Songs of Enchantment, Infinite Riches, and the Famished Road

Magical realism is used as a literary 

mode to highlight the significance of 

cultural intermingling, hybridity, and 

transformation. In the Novel Songs of 

Enchantment', Nigerian author Ben Okri 

uses dreams, visions, and magic to 

connect politics and history to bring out 

the concept of African consciousness in 

postcolonial society. The paper focuses 

on using imagination and its purpose in 

the novel. The mode of magical realism 

in the book helps the reader to view 

postcolonial Nigeria through dreams 

which serve in two ways firstly, through 

culture and society, and secondly, 

through hope of postcolonial Nigeria. 

This study aims to analyze how Okri 

encodes African consciousness versus 

Western epistemology and revaluates 

history through dreams and visions. 

Further, the study tries to analyze how 

Okri redreams postcolonial Nigeria 

through the third eye in 'Songs of 

Enchantment