Booker Prize winning novelist Ben Okri is often hailed as one of Africa's greatest writers. His first-hand experiences of civil war in Nigeria inspired much of his writing which encompasses with ease the mundane and the metaphysical, the individual and the collective. Okri's interest in education has led him to publicly and poetically stress the importance of self-discovery and intuition in the learning process as well as the vast collective potential of the world's students. In this thought-provoking essay he provides a blueprint for schools of the future.
