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In this deeply personal talk, novelist and poet Chris Abani searches for the heart of Africa through poems and narrative -- including his own.
About Chris Abani
Imprisoned three times by the Nigerian government, Chris Abani turned his experience into poems that Harold Pinter called "the most naked, harrowing expression of prison life and political torture... Read full bio »
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