A flesh-eyed mother rules the 13th town of these beings in a novel whose protagonist meets a television-handed one of them. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these creatures that inhabit a stretch of wilderness the unnamed 7-year-old protagonist must flee into to escape a raiding party.
ANSWER: ghosts [or spirits; or ogbanje]
[10m] The ghost Azaro joins the Party of the Rich in this author’s The Famished Road. This Nigerian author also wrote the follow-up novels Songs of Enchantment and Infinite Riches.
ANSWER: Ben Okri
[10e] In My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, the narrator is worshipped like a god at one of these locations after his head swells in size. Yoruba legends about Eshu bear similarities to a legend about Robert Johnson meeting the devil at one of these locations.
ANSWER: crossroads
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