ABSTRACT
Chris Abani is an outstanding migrant writer who is increasingly acquiring an international—or perhaps a post-national—status and citizenship. 1 Being part of the black diaspora, at different stages of his life and at different levels of willingness, Abani likes to define himself as a “global Igbo,” looking for a particular location within at least three different aesthetic and geopolitical traditions—African, British, and American—that mix together in the global context of hybrid urban and metropolitan cross-pollinated cultures and identities. This displaced location offers him a vantage point of view over the individuals and cultures he depicts in his work, seemingly always on the verge of a complete breakdown.
