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If I don't get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.

~Chris Abani

Topics: At Least One Even Every Feel Get Junk Know Least Mail Makes Me Minutes Sad Seen Sigh Ten Ten Minutes Unloved I Feel E-Mail

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In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Actual Bookstore Exciting Internet Itself Nonfiction Time

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My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.

~Chris Abani

Topics: About Always Away Chronicle Darkest Document Everyday Everyday People Find Just Lean Look Never Offer People Search Sentimental Share Stories Things Transformation Us Ways

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My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.

~Chris Abani

Topics: English Feisty Five Foot Lived Met Mother Moved Nigeria Oxford Parents She Two Very

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When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Always Because Country Essentially General Growing Growing Up Men Nigeria Part Passage Rites Say Taught Too Up Ways Were Where Which Women Young Young Men

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The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Appropriate Brought Built Come Community Express Find God Gods Made Object Own Priest Ritual Sacrifices Say Then Together Used Who Wish Would

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We often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true. The language actually makes the world in which we live. Language is not - I mean, things don't have any mutable value by themselves; we ascribe them a value.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Actually Any Ascribe Find Language Live Makes Mean Mirrors Often Them Themselves Things Think True Value Which World

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My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Cork Educated Father University

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I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.

~Chris Abani

Topics: About After Because Beginning Born Civil Civil War Ended Federal Federal Government Generate Generation Government Growing Growing Up History Make New New Generation Rebels School Taught The History Of Thought Three Up Us Want War Would Years I Was Born

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African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.

~Chris Abani

Topics: About African Always Anymore Been Care Continent Find How Humanity Interested More Narratives Our Ourselves Really Stories Tell West Writer Writers

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Author

Born: December 27th, 1966

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