The bibliography of Chris Abani lists works by Nigerian author Chris Abani.
Novellas Masters of the Board (1984). Enugu: Delta publishers Sirocco (1987). Nigeria: Swan publishers GraceLand (February 15, 2004). New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Becoming Abigail (2006). New York: Akashic Books Song for Night (2007). New York: Akashic Books The Virgin of Flames (2007). New York: Penguin The Secret History of Las Vegas (2014). New York: Penguin
Memoir The Face: Cartography of the Void (2013). New York: Restless Books Short story collection Lagos Noir (June 5, 2018). Brooklyn, US: Akashic Books
Poetry collections Source: Kalakuta Republic (2000). London: Saqi Books Daphne's Lot (2003). Los Angeles: Red Hen Press Dog Woman (2004). Los Angeles: Red Hen Press Hands Washing Water (2006). Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press Sanctificum (2010). Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press There Are No Names for Red (2010). Los Angeles: Red Hen Press Feed Me the Sun: Collected Long Poems (2010). Leeds: Peepal Tree Press Smoking the Bible (May 17, 2022). Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press
Plays Source: Room at the Top (1985 TV play). Nigeria: Imo State Broadcasting Station Song of a Broken Flute (1990 performance play). Nigeria: Imo State University (directed by Abani) The Poet, The Soldier, The Lover and The Paper-Kite Maker (2003 performance play). Los Angeles, USA: The Actors' Gang (directed by Abani and Antonia Carneval).
Screenplays Source: Fela! (2010). Nigeria: Focus Features and Film 4 The Last King of the Jews (2014) Death and the King's Horseman (2016)
Articles and essays Source: "The Lion" (1978). Owerri, Nigeria: Statesman Newspaper "Jazz Petals" in Burning Words, Flaming Images: Poems and Short Stories by Writers of African Descent (1996) by Kadija Sesay. London: SAKS Publications, pp. 22-27. "Becoming Abigail" in IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain (2000) by Courttia Newland and Kadija Sesay. London: Hamish Hamilton, pp. 247-253. "Such Sweet Thunder" (2002). StoryQuarterly "Weeping Madonna" (2003). StoryQuarterly, pp. 56-62. "Blooding" (2003). StoryQuarterly, pp. 164-169. "It Wasn't Lemonade" (2005). Mosaic, pp. 70-72. "A Conversation over Tea" in Stumbling and Raging: More Politically Inspired Fiction (2005) by Stephen Elliott and Greg Larson. San Francisco, US: MacAdam/Cage, pp. 105-106. "Albino Crow" in Prose Fiction and Non-Fiction Prose (2007), pp. 721-729. Also published in Best African American Fiction 2009 (2009) by Gerald Early and E. Lynn Harris. New York: Bantam Books, pp. 8-20. "Three Letters, One Song & A Refrain" (2008). Daedalus, pp. 87-91. "From Four Movements" (2011). Callaloo, pp. 682-697. "Killer Ape" in Lagos Noir (2018) by Chris Abani. New York: Akashic Books, pp. 201-217. "All Shook Up" (2003). Savoy "Mapping Obscurity: Excavating Meaning Base Materials and the African Literary Tradition" (2003). International Journal of Ethiopian Studies, pp. 121-132. "Resisting the Anomie: Exile and the Romantic Self" in Creativity in Exile (2004) by Mike Hanne. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, pp. 21-30. "The Lottery" (1 February 2004). The New York Times, p. 74. Also published in Patterns for A Purpose: A Rhetorical Reader (2010) by Barbara Fine Clouse. New York: McGraw Hill Education "Language Portrait" in Now Write!: Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers (2006) by Sherry Ellis. New York: Penguin, pp. 105-106. "Abigail and My Becoming" (19 April 2006). Truthdig "Of Ancestors and Progeny: Moments in Nigerian Literature" (2006). Black Issues, pp. 24-25. "Lagos: A Pilgrimage in 13 Nations" (2007). Farafina "A Good African" (2008). PEN America "American Empire: A Libretto in Eight Movements" in How They See Us: Meditations on America (2008) by James Atlas. New York: Atlas and Co Publishers, pp. 175-185. "This Red String Is For You Mama" in I Live Here (2008) by Mia Kirshner, J.B. MacKinnon, Michael Simons and Paul Shoebridge. New York: Pantheon Books "Love Letter" (2008). PEN America, pp. 33-34. "What Men Aren't Telling Us" (2008). O: The Oprah Magazine "Coming to America: A Remix" (2008). Tarpaulin Sky. Also published in Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures (2011) by Annalisa Oboe and Shaul Bassi. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 117-121. "When we cannot look away" (18 October 2008). Age, p. 16. "Omar Sharif Comes to Nollywood: A Storyboard in 10 Frames" in Nollywood (2009) by Pieter Hugo, Zina Saro-Wiwa and Stacy Hardy. Munich, Germany: Prestel Verlag, pp. 7-16. "Lagos: A Pilgrimage in Notations" in African Cities Reader I: Pan-African Practices (2010) by Ntone Edjabe and Edgar Pietersepp. Cape Town, South Africa: African Centre for Cities & Chimurenga, pp. 1-8. "Another Country" in Bound to Last: 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book (2010) by Sean Manning. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, pp. 192-199. "For Chris Akunda" (3 July 2010). Pilgrimages. Also published in Essay on oil in the Niger Delta (2011) by Marie Claire, p. 74. "Las Vegas: The Last African City" in African Cities Reader II: Mobilities & Fixtures (2011) by Ntone Edjabe and Edgar Pieterse. Cape Town, South Africa: African Centre for Cities & Chimurenga, pp. 89-91. "Humanity's willing curator" (7 October 2011). Mail & Guardian "Chinua Achebe: My Complicated Literary Father" (25 March 2013). Wall Street Journal "Our Living Ancestor: Chris Abani Remembers Chinua Achebe" (26 March 2013). Daily Beast "Painting a Body of Loss and Love in the Proximity of an Aesthetic" (25 November 2013). The Millions "A Young Seminarian Found Comfort In Giovanni's Melancholy" (28 December 2013). NPR Books "Sin City On-Screen: Sexy and Shocking Scenes Set in Las Vegas" (31 January 2014). Bookish. Also published in Text in Africa Junctions: Capturing The City (2015) by Lard Buurman. Berlin: Hatje Cantz. "Ghosting, Invisibility and the Erasure of Particular Bodies: A Spell" (29 June 2015). Four Way Review "The Graceful Walk" in The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights (2016) by Sophia A. McClennen and Alexandra Schultheis Moore. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 499-506.
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