{"id":264,"date":"2005-02-02T15:33:43","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T20:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=264"},"modified":"2005-02-03T14:11:57","modified_gmt":"2005-02-03T19:11:57","slug":"chris-abani-at-ncsu-march-27th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/chris-abani-at-ncsu-march-27th\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Abani at NCSU March 27th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African friend, Andie Miller, writes to say that one of her favorite poets, Nigerian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisabani.com\/\">Chris Abani<\/a> author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisabani.com\/Abani_Fiction\/Graceland.htm\">&#8220;Graceland&#8221;<\/a>  (a new novel which has just been shortlisted for the Africa region Best Book Award of The Commonwealth Writer&#8217;s Prize) and others, will be the keynote speaker at NCSU&#8217;s Human Rights Week on March 27th. Nothing yet on the NCSU website, but it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisabani.com\/Abani_Events\/Abani_Events.htm\">listed at Abani&#8217;s site.<\/a><br \/>\nYou can hear Abani on the March 22, 2004 show at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catradiocafe.com\/\">the Cat Radio Cafe<\/a>, which has a number of other really interesting shows with great writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African friend, Andie Miller, writes to say that one of her favorite poets, Nigerian Chris Abani author of &#8220;Graceland&#8221; (a new novel which has just been shortlisted for the Africa region Best Book Award of The Commonwealth Writer&#8217;s Prize) and others, will be the keynote speaker at NCSU&#8217;s Human Rights Week on March 27th. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-general","category-literature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}