Dangerous Love is a 1996 novel by Ben Okri set in Lagos of the 1970s. The novel is a remake of an earlier book, "The Landscapes Within" (1981). It is set in a post civil-war Nigerian society in a Lagos compound. "Dangerous Love" follows a young artist named Omovo and the influence that corrupt politics has on his artistry in the ghettos of Lagos in Nigeria after the Civil War.