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About The Speaker
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 imaginable." His novels include GraceLand (2004) and The Virgin of Flames (2007).
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クリス・アバニは人の物語を語ります: 兵隊に立ち向かう人々。同情的な人々。人間的で、彼らの人間性を取り戻そうとしている人々。 それを彼は、「Ubuntu」と言います: 私が人間的でいる唯一の方法は、あなたが私の人間性を反射し返してくれることです。
Translated into Japanese by Kayo Mizutani
Reviewed by Keisuke Kusunoki
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