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Description: In this deeply personal talk, novelist & poet Chris Abani searches for the heart of Africa through poetry & narrative -- including his own story of artistic & political awakening, which began with an inventive teacher who taught him the forbidden history of his own people. How, he asks, can we reconcile stories of terror, war & corruption with one's enduring sense of pure wonder?