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A breathtaking novella from the award-winning author of Song for Night and GraceLand. —A New York Times Editors’ Choice “Moody, lyrical prose re...
Cartography of the Void
Nigerian-born author and poet Chris Abani gives a profound and gorgeously wrought short memoir that navigates the stories written upon his own face. B...
This powerful collection of poems details the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and other political prisoners at the hands of Nigeria's military ...
Chris Abani finds the sacred in a charged and broken world, to "build meaning from detritus."...
A Novel
From the author of the award-winning GraceLand comes a searing, dazzlingly written novel of a tarnished City of Angels Praised as “singular” (The ...
A Novella
My Luck, a West African boy solider who has not spoken for three years, fights in a senseless war and embarks on a terrifying yet beautiful journey to...
A gritty, riveting, and wholly original murder mystery from PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author and 2015 Edgar Awards winner Chris Abani Before he can ...
Born into poverty in the chaotic capital city of Nigeria, Elvis is tempted by the underworld and enters a life of crime, encountering beggers, musicia...
Abigail is brought as a teenager to London from Nigeria by relatives who attempt to force her into prostitution. She flees, struggling to find herself...
There Are No Names for Red is a collaborative work featuring the poetry of Chris Abani and the paintings of Percival Everett....
An award-winning author of numerous books, Chris Abani moves between his Igbo ancestry and migration to the United States in poems that evoke the holi...
Lagos, fin des années 70. Une ville tentaculaire, grouillante, où grandit Elvis, un garçon fasciné par Presley, et qui imite son idole sur les pla...
West Africa enters the Noir Series arena, meticulously edited by one of Nigeria's best-known authors....
The Nigerian film industry is the third largest in the world. The films often deal with moral dilemmas facing modern Africans today such as religion, ...
Capturing the City
Dutch photographer Lard Buurman captures the African city as a site of permanent change and incessant encounter in his photographs. Life takes place o...
Collected Long Poems
A collection of imaginative and witty poems, this work displays astonishing energy; beauty of expression; and a range of reference to contemporary lif...
Chris Abani's Dog Woman is a mesmerizing, haunting, and sometimes subversive exploration of the personal and cultural politics of disempowerment and p...
Celebrating ten years of New-Generation African Poets, Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry presents Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani’s unprecedente...
A Chapbook Box Set
This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the work of eleven new African poets....
This eleven-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the work of ten new African poets....
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"Edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani, the yearly poetry chapbook set is a delightful combination of emerging African poets. This year's collection i...
An Introduction in Two Movements
A Chapbook Box Set (Tano)