• Masters of the Board (Enugu: Delta, 1984).
• Sirocco (Nigeria: Swan, 1987).
• GraceLand (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004).
• Becoming Abigail (New York: Akashic Books, 2006).
• Song for Night (New York: Akashic Books, 2007).
• The Virgin of Flames (New York: Penguin, 2007).
• The Secret History of Las Vegas (New York: Penguin, 2014).

• 'The Lion', Statesman Newspaper (Owerri), 1978.
• 'Jazz Petals', in Burning Words, Flaming Images: Poems and Short Stories by Writers of African Descent, vol. 1, ed. Kadija Sesay (London: S.A.K.S. Publications, 1996), pp. 22-27.
• 'Becoming Abigail', in IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, ed. Courttia Newland & Kadija Sesay (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2000), pp. 247-253.
• 'Such Sweet Thunder', Story Quarterly (Fall 2002). Also published in em two.
• 'Weeping Madonna', Story Quarterly (2003), pp. 56-62.
• 'Blooding', Story Quarterly (2003), pp. 164-169.
• 'It Wasn't Lemonade', Mosaic 44 (2005), pp. 70-72.
• 'A Conversation over Tea', in Stumbling and Raging: More Politically Inspired Fiction, ed. Stephen Elliott & Greg Larson (San Francisco: MacAdam & Cage Publishing, 2005), pp. 105-106.
• 'Albino Crow', Callaloo 30.3, 'Prose Fiction and Non-Fiction Prose: A Thirtieth Anniversary Issue' (Summer 2007), pp. 721-729. Also published in 580 Split (2007), pp. 31-39, and in Best African American Fiction 2009, ed. Gerald Lyn Early & E. Lynn Harris (New York: Bantam Books, 2009), pp. 8-20.
• 'Three Letters, One Song & A Refrain', Daedalus 137.1 (Winter 2008), pp. 87-91. Also published in Ninth Letter 4 (2007), pp. 13-16, and in Best African American Fiction 2010, ed. Gerald Early & Nikki Giovanni (New York: One World Books, 2009), pp. 20-26.
• 'From Four Movements', Callaloo 34.3 (Summer 2011), pp. 682-697.
• 'Killer Ape', in Lagos Noir, ed. Chris Abani (New York: Akashic, 2018), pp. 201-217.

• 'The Plot to Blow Up Nigeria', Vanguard, 15 June 1986, p. 12. An extract from Masters of the Board.
• 'Safekeeping', PEN America 8, issue on 'Making Histories' (2008), pp. 126-128. An extract from Song for Night.
• From Becoming Abigail, in Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing, ed. Rob Spillman (New York: Penguin, 2009).
• From Song for Night, Index on Censorship 39.4 (December 2010), p. 165.
• 'Friday - Excerpted from a novel in progress', Sentinel Nigeria 5 (February-April 2011).

• The Face: Cartography of the Void (New York: Restless Books, 2013 [digital edition], 2016 [print edition]).

• Kalakuta Republic (London: Saqi Books, 2000).
• Daphne's Lot (Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2003).
• Dog Woman (Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2004).
• Hands Washing Water (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2006).
• Sanctificum (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2010).
• There Are No Names for Red (Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2010).
• Feed Me the Sun: Collected Long Poems (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2010).
• Smoking the Bible (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2022). .

• 'Articles of Faith' & 'Jacob's Ladder', in Hotel Parnassus: Poezie van dichters uit de hele wereld (Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers & Rottderdam: Stichting Poetry International, 2003).
• [Title unknown], in The Fire People: A Collection of Contemporary Black British Poets, ed. Lemn Sissay (Edinburgh: Payback Press, 1998).
• '1971', 'Articles of Faith', 'Changing Times' & 'Passion Fruit', Revolver: Literair Tijdschrift 118 (2003). '1971' also appears in Daphne's Lot.
• 'Revelation', Callaloo 26.3 (Summer 2003), p. 707. Also in Dog Woman.
• 'Strange Fruit', Callaloo, 26.3 (Summer 2003), p. 708. Also in Dog Woman.
• 'Ode to Joy' (from Kalakuta Republic), '1971' & 'People Like Us' (from Daphne's Lot), in Creativity in Exile, ed. Mike Hanne (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2004), pp. 32-34. Also read by Chris Abani on the accompanying DVD.
• 'Alchemy of Fire', 'The Annunciation', 'DeCasas' Aria - A Funk In D Minor', 'Elegy', 'Memoriam I', 'Memoriam II', 'Note to Self I', 'Stone Woman, 'Sunlight' & 'Towards Haunting', Mosaic 43 (2004). Also in Dog Woman.
• 'Patterns', in Irdisches Leben, Blauer Dunst, ed. Beatrice Faßbender & Ulrich Schreiber (Berlin: Alexander, 2004). Also in Dog Woman.
• 'Geography Lesson', Eclipse 15 (2004). Also in Dog Woman.
• 'Letter to the Editor', Big Bend Sentinel (2004). Also published in CRATE: UCR's Literary Magazine 1.1 (Spring 2005) and in Hands Washing Water.
• 'Fire', Ploughshares 30.4 (Winter 2004-2005), p. 9. Also in Hands Washing Water.
• 'The Measure of Sorrow', Runes (Signals): A Review of Poetry (January 2005). Also in Hands Washing Water.
• 'Dog Woman' (from Dog Woman), Seattle Review 27.1 (2005).
• 'Stabat Mater', in Voices in Wartime Anthology: A Collection of Narratives and Poems, ed. Andrew Himes & Jan Bultmann (Seattle: Whit Press, 2005), p. 149. Also in Daphne's Lot.
• 'Howl', in Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa, ed. Nii Ayikwei Parkes & Kadija Sesay (London: flipped eye publishing & African Writers Abroad, 2005), p. 31. Also in Hands Washing Water.
• 'Foucault's Funk', CRATE: UCR's Literary Magazine 1.1 (Spring 2005). Also in Hands Washing Water.
• 'A Way to Turn This to Light', 'Lacan', 'The Old Artist Speaks To The Young Poet', 'War Widow' & 'Secrets', Fugacity 05 (2005). Also in Hands Washing Water. 'Raja-Mandalam', The Angahra Dance Ensemble, USA, 2005. Poetic text for Indian dance performance.
• 'Walcott', Hayden's Ferry Review 37 (Fall-Winter 2005-2006). Also in Hands Washing Water.
• 'Poems' ('Portal' [pp. 80-82], 'Passion Fruit' [pp. 82-83], 'Concrete Memories' [pp. 83-84] & 'The Box' [pp. 84-86]), in Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World, ed. Lucy Popescu & Carole Seymour-Jones (New York: NYU Press, 2007), pp. 80-86.
• 'Sanctificum' (from Sanctificum) and 'There Are No Names for Red' (sections I to VI of There Are no Names for Red), Diode 1.1 (Fall 2007).
• 'Passion Fruit', in Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World, ed. Lucy Popescu & Carole Seymour-Jones (New York: NYU Press, 2007), pp. 82-83. Previously published in Revolver: Literair Tijdschrift 118 (2003).
• 'From Sanctificum', Blackbird 6.2 (Fall 2007). An early version of the opening poem of the section 'Renewal'.
• 'Sanctificum', Tarpaulin Sky (2007).
• 'There Are No Names for Red' (sections I, II, III, VI, XI & XVI of There Are No Names for Red), Sentinel Poetry 59 (November 2007).
• 'There Are No Names for Red' (sections II, VIII, XI & XXIII of There Are No Names for Red), World Literature Today 81.6 (November-December 2007), p. 45.
• 'There Are No Names for Red' (section XX), OBAN '06 (2006).
• 'Sacrament', in Bombay Gin 34.2 (2008). Also in Sanctificum.
• 'Processional', PEN America 10 (2009). Also in Sanctificum.
• 'Path of Shells', Black Clock 11 (2009), pp. 136-139.
• 'Om' (from Sanctificum), Redivider 6.2 (Spring 2009).
• 'Elephants', SPECS Journal of Art and Culture 2.1 (2009), pp. 11-12. Also in Sanctificum.
• 'Histories', SPECS Journal of Art and Culture 2.1 (2009), pp. 13-16. Also published in Farafina 16 (2009), in Homeboy Review 1 (2009), and in Sanctificum.
• 'Los Angeles', Narrative Magazine (2009).
• 'Lumen', Narrative Magazine (2009).
• 'Salt', Narrative Magazine (2009).
• 'War Widow', Narrative Magazine (2009).
• 'A Letter to Robert Pinsky', Court Green 6 (2009), p. 112. Also in Sanctificum.
• 'Fruit', Narrative Magazine, 2009.
• '1971', in The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive, ed. Fritz Haeg (New York: Evil Twins Press, 2009).
• 'Changing Times', in The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive, ed. Fritz Haeg (New York: Evil Twins Press, 2009).
• 'The Measure of Sorrow', in The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive, ed. Fritz Haeg (New York: Evil Twins Press, 2009).
• 'The New Religion', in The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive, ed. Fritz Haeg (New York: Evil Twins Press, 2009). Also published in Between Water and Song: New Poets for the Twenty-first Century, ed. Norman Minnick (Buffalo: White Pine Press, 2010).
• 'Say Something about Child's Play', in Between Water and Song: New Poets for the Twenty-first Century, ed. Norman Minnick (Buffalo: White Pine Press, 2010). Also in Hands Washing Water.
• 'Dark Waters (III)', in Between Water and Song: New Poets for the Twenty-first Century, ed. Norman Minnick (Buffalo: White Pine Press, 2010).
• 'Muir Woods', in Between Water and Song: New Poets for the Twenty-first Century, ed. Norman Minnick (Buffalo: White Pine Press, 2010).
• 'The New Religion', in Between Water and Song: New Poets for the Twenty-first Century, ed. Norman Minnick (Buffalo: White Pine Press, 2010). Also in The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive, ed. Fritz Haeg (New York: Evil Twins Press, 2009).
• 'The Old Artist Speaks to the Young Poet', in Between Water and Song: New Poets for the Twenty-first Century, ed. Norman Minnick (Buffalo: White Pine Press, 2010).
• 'Prelude', in Between Water and Song: New Poets for the Twenty-first Century, ed. Norman Minnick (Buffalo: White Pine Press, 2010).
• 'Dying', Boulevard Magenta 3 (2010).
• 'Four Poems', Narrative Magazine (Winter 2010).
• 'Ode to Joy' (from Kalakuta Republic), in Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing, ed. Frances Payne Adler, Debra Busman & Diana García (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009).
• 'Heavensgate' (from Kalakuta Republic), in Fire in the Soul: 100 Poems for Human Rights, ed. Dinyar Godrej (Oxford: New Internationalist, 2009), pp. 14-15.
• 'Mbubu', in So Much Things to Say: 100 Calabash Poets, ed. Kwame Dawes & Colin Channer (New York: Akashic Books, 2010), p. 45.
• 'Taxonomy', The Offing: A Literary Magazine, 28 April 2015.
• 'Poet of an Ordinary Heartbreak', Academy of American Poets [website], 24 November 2015.
• 'Breakfast', Prairie Schooner 90.4 (Winter 2016), p. 56.
• 'Koan', Poetry International Magazine (2016).
• 'The Calculus of Faith', Poetry International Magazine (2016).
• 'Cremation', Harvard Review 50 (2016). Also published in Poetry International Magazine (2016).
• 'Even Things with No Name', The Great American Literary Magazine 6 (2016).
• 'Ritual Is Journey', World Literature Today [online], 9 October 2020.

• Room at the Top (Imo State Broadcasting Station, Nigeria, 1985). Television.
• Song of a Broken Flute, dir. Chris Abani (Imo State University, Nigeria, 1990). Performance.
• The Poet, The Soldier, The Lover and The Paper-Kite Maker, dir. Chris Abani & Antonia Carneval (The Actors' Gang, Los Angeles, USA, 2003). Performance.

• Fela! (Focus Features and Film 4, 2010).
• The Last King of the Jews (2014).
• Death and the King's Horseman (2016).

• 'All Shook Up', Savoy Magazine 3.6 (August 2003). [classification as 'article' tentative]
• 'Mapping Obscurity: Excavating Meaning Base Materials and the African Literary Tradition', International Journal of Ethiopian Studies 1.1 (Summer-Fall 2003), pp. 121-132.
• 'Resisting the Anomie: Exile and the Romantic Self', in Creativity in Exile, ed. Mike Hanne (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2004), pp. 21-30. Excerpts also published in African Literatures, ed. Frank Schulze-Engler & Geoffrey V. Davis (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2013), pp. 232-235.
• 'Africans can't shake mythic past in contemporary collection', review of The Prophet of Zongo Street, by Mohammed Naseehu Ali, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 August 2005.
• 'Thinking man's rebel from Nigeria', review of You Must Set Forth at Dawn, by Wole Soyinka, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 April 2006.
• 'The Lottery', New York Times Magazine, 1 February 2004, p. 74. Also published in Patterns for A Purpose: A Rhetorical Reader, sixth edition, ed. Barbara Fine Clouse (New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2010).
• 'The Human Face of War', review of Johnny Mad Dog, by Emmanuel Dongala, Los Angeles Times (Book Review), 5 June 2005.
• 'Layer Me This / In Schichten, bitte', in Parkett 76: Julie Mehretu, Yang Fudong, Lucy McKenzie (2006).
• 'Language Portrait', in Now Write!: Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers, ed. Sherry Ellis (New York: Penguin 2006), pp. 105-106.
• 'All the wrong places', review of Paradise Travel: A Novel, by Jorge Franco, Lost Angeles Times, 22 January 2006.
• 'Abigail and My Becoming', Truthdig, 19 April 2006.
• 'Of Ancestors and Progeny: Moments in Nigerian Literature', Black Issues Book Review 8.6 (November-December 2006), pp. 24-25.
• 'Immigrant family's reality differs between generations', review of The Fruit of the Lemon, by Andrea Levy, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 February 2007.
• 'The Power of Babel', review of Rotten English, ed. Dora Ahmad, Los Angeles Times (Book Review), 2007.
• 'Divided hearts', review of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, by Dinaw Mengestu, Los Angeles Times (Book Review), 4 March 2007. Also published as 'Dante, Beatrice in a narrative of immigration', Baltimore Sun, 11 March 2007.
• 'Lagos: A Pilgrimage in 13 Nations', Farafina 11 (2007). Later published in revised version as the introduction to Lagos Noir.
• 'A Good African', PEN America 8, issue on 'Making Histories' (2008), pp. 34-35.
• Untitled (essay about Ethiopian Artist Julie Meretu), in Disguise: The Art of Deflecting Attention, ed. Joost Bosland (Cape Town: Michael Stevenson, 2008).
• 'What Men Aren't Telling Us', O Magazine, July 2008.
• 'American Empire: A Libretto in Eight Movements' , in How They See Us: Meditations on America, ed. James Atlas (New York: Atlas & Co Publishers, 2008), pp. 175-185.
• 'This Red String Is For You Mama', in I Live Here, by Mia Kirshner, J.B. MacKinnon, Michael Simons & Paul Shoebridge (New York: Pantheon Books, 2008).
• 'Love Letter', PEN America 9 (2008), pp. 33-34. On Chinua Achebe.
• 'Warped World', review of Slumberland, by Paul Beatty, Los Angeles Times (Book Review), 15 June 2008.
• 'What Men Aren't Telling Us', O: The Oprah Magazine, July 2008.
• 'Coming to America: A Remix', Tarpaulin Sky 14 (Summer 2008). Also in Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures, ed. Annalisa Oboe & Shaul Bassi (Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2011), pp. 117-121.
• 'When we cannot look away', Age, 18 October 2008, p. 16.
• 'Omar Sharif Comes to Nollywood: A Storyboard in 10 Frames', in Nollywood, by Pieter Hugo [images], Chris Abani, Zina Saro-Wiwa & Stacy Hardy [text] (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2009), pp. 7-16.
• Foreword to the CLMP Literary Press and Magazines Directory 2009/2010, by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2009).
• 'Ethics and Narrative: the Human and Other', Witness 22, issue on 'Dismissing Africa' (2009), pp. 167-173.
• 'Lagos: A Pilgrimage in Notations', in African Cities Reader I: Pan-African Practices, ed. Ntone Edjabe & Edgar Pietersepp (Cape Town: African Centre for Cities & Chimurenga, 2010), pp. 1-8.
• 'Another Country', in Bound to Last: 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book, ed. Sean Manning (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010), pp. 192-199.
• 'For Chris Akunda', Pilgrimages, 3 July 2010.
• [Essay on oil in the Niger Delta], Marie Claire (Italy) (May 2011), p. 74.
• 'Las Vegas: The Last African City', in African Cities Reader II: Mobilities & Fixtures, ed. Ntone Edjabe & Edgar Pieterse (Cape Town: African Centre for Cities & Chimurenga, 2011), pp. 89-91.
• 'Humanity's willing curator', Mail & Guardian, 7 October 2011.
• 'Chinua Achebe: My Complicated Literary Father', Wall Street Journal, 25 March 2013.
• 'Our Living Ancestor: Chris Abani Remembers Chinua Achebe', Daily Beast, 26 March 2013.
• 'Painting a Body of Loss and Love in the Proximity of an Aesthetic', The Millions, 25 November 2013.
• 'A Young Seminarian Found Comfort In "Giovanni's" Melancholy', NPR Books, 28 December 2013.
• 'Sin City On-Screen: Sexy and Shocking Scenes Set in Las Vegas', Bookish, 31 January 2014.
• Text in Africa Junctions: Capturing The City, by Lard Buurman [photography] (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2014).
• 'Preface', in The Cartographer of Water, by Clifton Gachagua, pp. 4-6. Part of the boxset Seven New Generation African Poets, ed. Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani (Sleepy Hollow, NY: Slapering Hol Press, 2014).
• 'Ghosting, Invisibility and the Erasure of Particular Bodies: A Spell', Four Way Review, 29 June 2015. A photo essay.
• 'Foreword', in The Animal After Whom All Animals Are Named, by Nicole Sealey (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2015).
• 'The Graceful Walk', in The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights, ed. Sophia A. McClennen & Alexandra Schultheis Moore (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016), pp. 499-506.
• 'What Happens in Vegas', review of Dragonfish, by Vu Tran, New Yok Times (Book Review), 16 August 2016, p. 10. [online version: 10 August 2016]
• 'Foreword', in Nowhere to Arrive, by Jenny Xie (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2017).
• 'Foreword', in The University of Hip-Hop, by Mayda Del Valle (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2017).

• 'The Myth of Fingerprints: Signifying as Displacement in Derek Walcott's Omeros', PhD dissertation, University of Southern California, USA, May 2006, 142 pp. (incl. 67 pp. on Walcott, and an appendix containing Daphne's Lot, pp. 68-142).

• Lagos Noir (New York: Akashic, 2018).

• Seven New Generation African Poets, ed. Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani (Sleepy Hollow, NY: Slapering Hol Press, 2014).
• Eight New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set, ed. Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani (New York: Akashic, 2015).
• New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tatu), ed. Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani (New York: Akashic, 2016).

• 'Growing Up in the Shadow of Guns', in Voices in Wartime Anthology: A Collection of Narratives and Poems, ed. Andrew Himes & Jan Bultmann (Seattle: Whit Press, 2005), pp. 138-148. Extracts from an interview with Rick King.
• Interview with Tayari Jones, Believer (April 2004). Also published as 'Tayari Jones with Chris Abani', The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers, ed. Vendela Vida (San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2005). Also included in the revised and expanded edition of this book, 2008, pp. 9-23.
• 'Coming to Elvis', by Sherry Ellis, Bloomsbury Review 25.1 (January-February 2005), pp. 22-23. Also published in Illuminating Fiction: Today's Best Writers of Fiction, ed. Sherry Ellis (Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2009).
• 'Chris Abani and Colm Tóibín in Conversation', Bomb 96 (Summer 2006), pp. 30-35.
• 'Q&A: Chris Abani', by Daisy Hernández, Colorlines (November-December 2006), pp. 6-8.
• Interview with Kate Durbin, Elegant Variation (literary weblog), 4 April 2007.
• Interview, Literate Nubian, web magazine (circa 2006), no longer online.
• 'Lidija Dimkovska s Chrisom Abanijem: Pisatelj v izgnanstvu', interview by Lidija Dimkovska, Sodobnost 71.2&3 (February-March 2007), pp. 245-255.
• 'Awards Do Not Make Good Writers', by Morenike Taire, Vanguard, 2007. Also published on AfricanWriter.com, 21 May 2007.
• 'Cristina García', by Chris Abani, Bomb 99 (Spring 2007), pp. 34-37.
• Interview with Juliet C. Kinkade, Mary Magazine (Spring 2007).
• 'Stray Questions for: Chris Abani', by Dwight Garner, New York Times, 22 June 2007.
• 'At the Confluences', interview by Amatoritsero Ede, Sentinel Poetry 59 (November 2007).
• 'A Conversation with Chris Abani', by Sarah Shook & Laura Brink, World Literature Today 2 (2008).
• 'International Dreamer: Chris Abani', by Carl Lindgren, Map Magazine, 5 December 2008.
• 'An Interview with Chris Abani', by Amanda Aycock, Safundi 10.1 (January 2009), pp. 1-10.
• 'A Conversation with Chris Abani', by Patty Paine, Blackbird 8.1 (Spring 2009).
• Writing Matters 9.3 (Spring 2009), pp. 3-4.
• 'Q&A with Nigerian author Chris Abani', by Paige Parker, Daily Bruin, 3 May 2009.
• 'Compassion, Courage, and Doubt... You Know, the Small Stuff: An interview with Nigerian Writer Chris Abani', by Jeff Severns Guntzel, Utne Reader (June 2010).
• 'Encounters: Chris Abani', by Marie Elizabeth Mali, Union Station Magazine (July 2010).
• 'Chris Abani', Time Out, special issue on 'Celebrating Nigeria at 50' (October 2010), p. 73.
• 'A conversation with Chris Abani', by Unoma Azuah, Sentinel Nigeria 5 (February-April 2011).
• 'The Rumpus interview with Chris Abani', by Peter Orner, The Rumpus, 10 February 2014.
• 'Chris Abani', by Amy Sutherland, Boston Globe, 22 March 2014.
• 'Q&A: Chris Abani On The Search For Better Questions', by Bridgett M. Davis, Bold as Love Magazine, 2 April 2014.
• 'A Deep Humanness, a Deep Grace: Interview with Chris Abani', by Yogita Goyal, Research in African Literatures 45.3 (Fall 2014), pp. 227-240.
• 'Nigerian writer to deliver lecture on creativity, impact on society', by Chris Bowling, Daily Nebraskan, 10 September 2014.
• '"If I Strip away Everything, What Is Left?" A Conversation with Chris Abani', by Rob Roensch & Mary B. Gray, World Literature Today 92.4 (July-August 2018), pp. 18-24.

• 'Chris Abani: Interview', in Creativity in Exile, ed. Mike Hanne (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2004). DVD. Also includes readings of the poems 'Ode to Joy' (from Kalakuta Republic), '1971' & 'People Like Us' (from Daphne's Lot).
• 'Some Angels: Chis Abani and Dennis Phillips', interview by Leonard Schwartz and reading from Dog Woman, Cross-Cultural Poetics, KOAS FM, 2004. Audio. Released on CD (Olympia: KAOS Radio & Evergreen State College, 2004).
• Interview, Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, 22 March 2004. Audio.
• 'Chris Abani in Conversation with Richard Wolinsky', Bookwaves, KPFA, 8 April 2004. Audio. Recorded on 26 February 2004.
• Interview by Michael Krasny, Forum, KQED, 31 May 2004. Audio.
• 'The model of African wars', Voices in Wartime (2005, documentary film). Video & transcript.
• 'Author Walter Mosely introduces Chris Abani's book, Graceland', Today, NBC News, 26 January 2005. Video & transcript.
• Interview by Elizabeth Austen, The Beat, KUOW, 28 February 2005. Audio.
• 'Interview with Chris Abani', by David Inge, Focus 580, WILL-AM 580, 3 April 2006. Audio.
• 'PEN and Telling', Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, 28 April 2006. Audio.
• Interview, Tavis Smiley, KQED World, 11 July 2006. Audio.
• 'Becoming Abigail: Chris Abani's Next Novel', by Farai Chideya, News & Notes, NPR, 19 May 2006. Audio & transcript.
• 'Song for Night Highlights Hope, Despair', by Michel Martin, Tell Me More, NPR, 4 October 2007. Audio & transcript.
• 'Writer Chris Abani Taps Geopolitics, Emotions', by Farai Chideya, News & Notes, NPR, 7 November 2007. Audio & transcript.
• Interview with Gabriela Jauregui, ARTSblock Live!, KCET, 28 January 2008. Audio.
• 'Chinua Achebe and Chris Abani', by Leonard Lopate, Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, 26 February 2008. Audio.
• Interview by Andrew Denton, Enough Rope, ABC (Australia), 6 October 2008. Transcript, audio file & video excerpt.
• Interview with Rafael F.J. Alvarado, Blogtalkradio, 9 August 2010. Audio.
• 'Searching for Democracy: What the Future Holds', UCTV, 5 September 2011.
• 'Chris Abani, Nigerian Writer and Political Activist', by Steve Scher, Weekday, KUOW (NPR), 5 April 2011. Audio. Extracts also broadcast as 'Best Of Weekday: Chris Abani and Paul Farmer', by Steve Scher, Weekday, KUOW (NPR), 5 October 2011.
• 'Chris Abani', by Doug Silver, Late Night Library, 25 March 2014.

• GraceLand, trans. into German by Thomas Brückner (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2004).
• GraceLand, trans. into Italian by Laura Prandino & Isabella Zani (Milan: Terre Di Mezzo, 2006).
• GraceLand, trans. into French by Michèle Albaret-Maatsch (Paris: Albin Michel, 2008).
• GraceLand, trans. into Swedish by Roy Isaksson (Lund: Celanders Förlag, 2009).

• Postajuci Abigail: Novela, trans. into Bosnian by Senada Kreso (Sarajevo & Zagreb: Ajfelov Most, 2007).
• Abigail: Una storia vera, trans. into Italian by Angela Gibbon & Daniela Guardamagna (Rome: Fanucci, 2008).
• Abigails liv, trans. into Swedish by Roy Isaksson (Lund: Celanders Förlag, 2008).
• Le corps rebelle d'Abigail Tansi, translated into French by Anne Wicke (Paris: Albin Michel, 2010).

• Canzone per la Notte, trans. into Italian by Sara Marinelli (Rome: Fanucci, 2010).
• Comptine pour l'enfant-soldat, trans. into French by Anne Wicke (Paris: Albin Michel, 2011).
• Nattens sÃ¥ng, trans. into Swedish by Roy Isaksson (Lund: Celanders Förlag, 2010).

• L'ambigua follia di Mr Black, trans. into Italian by Nicoletta Brazzelli (Rome: Fanucci, 2007).

• Maar mijn hart is onvergangkelijk, trans. into Dutch by Jabik Veenbaas (Amsterdam: Wagner & Van Santen, 2003). Poems in English and in Dutch translation.

• 'Algunos poemas de Hands Washing Water de Chris Abani', trans. into Spanish by Paulina H. Marroquín, Idiomática: Revista Universitaria de Lenguas 2.3 (2021).

• 'Lagos: Schrottgeburt aus Dreck und Feuer', trans. into German by Felix Denk & Alex Rühle, in Megacitys: Die Zukunft der Städte, ed. Alex Rühle (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2008), pp. 15-23. Also published in Modern Times 6 (2008). A German version of 'Lagos: A Pilgrimage in Notations'.
• 'Lagos: La Brezza Oltre La Baja', translated into Italian, Internazionale (March 2006). An Italian version of 'Lagos: A Pilgrimage in Notations'.
• 'Los Angeles: Der diebische Engel', in Megacitys: Die Zukunft der Städte, ed. Alex Rühle (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2008), pp. 154-160. Also published in Süddeutsche Zeitung, 27 May 2010.
• 'LA: L'Angelo Ladro', translated into Italian, Internazionale (June 2007).
• 'Lo scrittore e la capra' (Italian version of 'The Writer and the Goat'), Internazionale 893 (15-21 April 2011).

• GraceLand, read by Chris Abani, 11 CDS / 9 cassettes, unabridged, approx. 12 hours and 30 minutes (Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, 2005).

• 'Chris Abani, Nigeria', by Iris Pronk, Trouw, 17 June 2003. In Dutch. Chris Abani comments on his poem 'Things to Do in London When You Are Dead'.
• 'Call for Submissions: Lagos Noir', Naijablog, 1 June 2007.
• 'The Importance of the Humanities: Viewpoints', Humanities (Spring 2009), p. 2.
• 'A Sentimental Education', New York Times (Sunday Book Review), 9 February 2014, p. BR16. On Gabriel García Márquez's' Love in the Time of Cholera. [online version: 6 February 2014]
• 'Booknotes - Chris Abani The Secret History of Las Vegas', largeheartedboy, 26 February 2014. A playlist of songs that inspired The Secret History of Las Vegas.
• 'George Floyd: African Authors Sans Frontieres in Solidarity with African-Americans', Africa Report, 2 June 2021.

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