Chris Abani: Telling stories of our shared humanity

[tlig]

Fat liar.

[tlig]

Fat liar.

[nnaamen]

Ride on, Nwanna. Igbo kwenu.

[solonly02]

wow!!! igbos are great

[LTcrew]

the poetry reading is staggering

[luciengrey24]

Love his mannerism and the way he carries himself. Exudes intelligence, glad to see someone showing the world that Nigerians are not only the negative portrayals the media to tell and the stereotypes Hollywood perpetuates.

Would love to read that first book he wrote. That would have been awesome. BIG UP NAIJA.

[LusoCMD]

"Bombing for peace is like F*u*c***i*n*g for virginity" great just great

[ghanboy]

How are some Nigerians able to look like that?

[bluecafe22]

He is obviously mixed. I'm half Ghanaian/Canadian, and you wouldn't think I was Ghanaian if you looked at me.

[MayaCreatesChaos]

he has a white mother. his father is very very dark though.

[MrFrankBullitt]

Africa is resource rich so they will stay poor. The U.S. will exploit them for oil and diamonds while backing dictators. There are forces at work too strong to fix with simple aid.

[luciengrey24]

Syriana which starred George Clooney was an eye opening illustration on how far some governemnts can go to get resources.

[stratman06]

@MrFrankBullitt It's becoming more China than the US.

[p456ome]

@MrFrankBullitt the U. S does not support we turn a blind eye because it is easy for us to do so without living in shame, China is worse they supply weapons that are used in genocides and mass murders that the world doesn't know about. All westeren powers are to blame Europeans for imperialism and the all of us now in modern times because we do nothing yet we watch videos on humanity and feel touched

[crudhousefull]

@p456ome Idiot

[mediocratez]

what a great spirit.

[CalmRage1]

what a scholar and a gentleman. does he do speaking engagements regularly? this is the 1st time i've seen him and i think more people like him deserve more exposure.

[sacapiloa]

this is a good person

[eyeseeangel]

He's got a great sense of humor though and does make you pay attention. :) Interesting

[eyeseeangel]

hmm...I think this segment made a good point about the mass media being the agent for a country's image. However I dont think he came with a plan. He seemed to be all over the place.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala:

She did an excellent Job!

[Rick69000]

ALOT of ramble, good stuff tho :)

[bitRAKE]

An entertaining humanitarian.

[outthetube]

A Pakistani-Muslim teaching young Igbo children Jewish history instead of Igbo history spells the death of a people.

[Mrmoc9]

Good point, that's why I renounced that crap called Islam.

[maceike]

I think he was trying to display the irony in the situation: a non-Nigerian, muslim talking about jewish genocide (since jews and muslims are at war). Remember that the Nigerian government forbade teaching about the Biafra war. So the teacher chose another similar story.

[sky1927]

The irony of the teacher's message was dead on the money, so accurate. With the only different being that the power brokers of the world supported the Jews while Biafra was ignored by all except frederick forsyth

[FlowerEaters]

Honestly,I don't really understand his main message, but he said Bush was dumb...so I'm happy.

[marjan15]

rubbish, i'm sorry but guy is brainwashed

[outthetube]

marjan15, I'm with you in a lot of ways. I am hoping that underneath all that "the original" still exists.

[nofare]

a bit of a ramble, but good things in there.

[sky1927]

that's what making public speeches are all about

[1joecool1]

awesome;-]