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Chris Abani

Smoking the Bible

In this time of global civil rights movements, Smoking the Bible lends insights to a Black African's immigration experience to the United States, as well as a Black man's current experience living in the US. * Abani is an acclaimed international voice-and public speaker-on "humanitarianism, art, ethics, and our shared political responsibility." * Each of Abani's TED Talks have nearly 1,000,000 views * A prolific and versatile author, Abani is an acclaimed, prize winning novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright. * His work has been translated into 13 foreign languages. * Abani was a political prisoner in Nigeria at various times during 1985 and 1991 * In 1991, Abani was put on death row for his anticorruption play "Song of a Broken Flute." He was released in the

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wake of international pressure (and, probably, bribes).

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