Chris Abani, Author at Witness

Chris Abani

Chris Abani’s prose includes Song for Night, The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail, and GraceLand. He is a professor at the University of California, Riverside and the recipient of a PEN/Hemingway award, among other honors.

Ethics and Narrative: the Human and Other

By Chris Abani

Nonfiction•Dismissing Africa - Vol. XXII (2009)

Love for the weak always includes a certain murderous intent. —Kobe Abe Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. —Lord Dalberg-Acton Let us not begin with definitions. With academic references. With proof that many books have been studied on the subject. With the notion… [Read More]