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This video features: Chris Abani. Does he make the cut as one of the 50 Greatest Nigerians of All Time?

Christopher "Chris" Abani is a world-renowed Nigerian author. His first novel was Masters of the Board.

The Nigerian government, however, believed the book to be a blueprint for an actual coup, and sent the 18-year-old Abani to prison in 1985.After serving six months in jail, he was released, but he went on to perform in a guerilla theatre group. This action led to his arrest and imprisonment. He was released again, but after writing his play Song of a Broken Flute he was arrested for a third time, sentenced to death, and sent to the Kalakuta Prison, where he was jailed with other political prisoners and inmates on death row.

Chris Abani was freed in 1991. He lived in exile in London until a friend was murdered there in 1999; he then fled to the United States.

Today, Chris Abani is a Professor at the University of California, Riverside and the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the 2001 Prince Claus Awards, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.

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This video series highlights the 50 GREATEST NIGERIANS OF ALL TIME.
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Our list of 50 Greatest Nigerians in History includes (but is not limited to:)
Abike Dabiri
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Agbani Darego
Ahmadu Bello
Bishop Ajayi Crowther
Alex Ekwueme
Aliko Dangote
Babatunde Olatunji
Bamanga Tukur
Ben Murray
Ben Okri
Bimbo Odukoya
Biship Francis Arinze
Bola Ige
Buchi Emecheta
Charles Soludo
Chief Osita Osadebe

Chinua Achebe
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Chioma Ajunwa
Chris Abani
Chris Anyawu
Dele Momodu
Dick Tiger
Dr Alban
Dora Akunyili
Ebenezer Obey

Fela Anikulapo Kuti
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Gani Fawehinmi
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Grace Williams
Hakeem Olajuwon
Ibrahim Gambari
Ifueko Omoigui
Jimi Agbaje
JJ Okocha
King Sunny Ade (Sunday Adeniyi)
Michael Adenuga
Moshood Kashimawo (MKO) Abiola
Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Nuhu Ribadu
Nwankwo Kanu
Obafemi Awolowo (Awo!)
Obiageli Ezekwesili
Odemegwu Ojukwu
Okey Ndibe
Olusegun Obasanjo
Patrick Utomi
Philip Emeagwali
Sade Adu
Samuel Peter
Seal
Tunde Baiyewu
Wole Soyinka
Yakubu Gowon

Muhammadu Buhari

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