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Chris Abani: Telling stories of our shared humanity

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http://www.ted.com Chris Abani tells stories of people: People standing up to soldiers. People being compassionate. People being human and reclaiming their humanity. It's "ubuntu," he says: the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at
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  • 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.

  • 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.

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  • Fat liar.

  • Fat liar.

  • @p456ome Idiot

  • @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

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

  • Ride on, Nwanna. Igbo kwenu.

  • wow!!! igbos are great

  • the poetry reading is staggering

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