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Marginalized Voices and Community Empowerment in the Selected Novels of Ben Okri

Author(s) Udit Rana, Dr. Swati Sharma, Dr. Neetu Kumar
Country India
Abstract In postcolonial African nations characterized by poverty, political instability, and social injustice, Ben Okri's books provide a deep and complex literary investigation of marginality, vulnerability, and collective survival. Okri depicts disability as a socially constructed state caused by physical tiredness, psychic trauma, spiritual dislocation, and ongoing socioeconomic deprivation rather than using strictly medical or clinical terminology. It has been demonstrated that these incapacitating experiences result from exploitative social relations, corrupt power structures, and unfair political systems that consistently marginalize the weak and the impoverished. Because of the intricate intersection between social disability and gender-based oppression, women—who hold the most vulnerable positions in Okri's imaginary world—have their lives and bodies at the center of the narrative critique of injustice.This paper explores how Okri depicts women and oppressed characters in The Famished Road, Songs of Enchantment, and Infinite Riches as essential agents of perseverance, moral awareness, and collective resilience rather than only as victims of incapacitating circumstances. Through tenacity, moral discernment, and emotional labor, these individuals support families and communities despite being shut out of positions of economic and political authority. According to the study, Okri shifts focus toward social accountability by redefining disability as a structural and communal issue as opposed to an individual shortcoming. In Okri's books, community empowerment—which is based on humanistic principles of empathy, solidarity, resistance, and shared moral responsibility—emerges as the main moral response to suffering.
Keywords injustice, empowerment, resistance, marginalized.
Published In Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On 2026-06-03
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i03.80485
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