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My essay on New Age spirituality in The Famished Road derives from my doctoral dissertation, "'Born-To-Die. The History and Politics of Abiku and Ogbanje in Nigerian Literature," where it appears as one of two chapters focused on the novel. The other chapter explores additional discourses of spirituality that Okri's text is shaped by and in dialogue with, from social Darwinist accounts of abiku offered by colonial anthropologists, to present-day spiritual beliefs and practices pertaining to abiku in Nigeria, in London, and on the World Wide Web. The two chapters together try to demonstrate that Okri's representation of abiku (decisively shaped, I argue, by New Age ...