Chris Abani

Person · Open Library

Works

24

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

GB

Active from

1951-03-04

Active to

2025-12-22

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

501

Total plays

627

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 51,118x

2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,623x

3. Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

   · 2012 · cited 17,974x

4. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,798x

5. Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant

   · 1998 · cited 16,279x

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Quotes

• “"This is the kola nut. This seed is a star. This star is life. This star is us".”
• “"Elvis! Elvis! Wake up. It’s past six in de morning and all your mates are out dere looking for work,” his father, Sunday, said.“What work, sir? I have a job.”“Dancing is no job. We all dance in de bar on Saturday. Open dis bloody door!” Sunday shouted.”
• “He stared at the city, half slum, half paradise. How could a place be so ugly and violent yet beautiful at the same time? he wondered. He hadn’t known about the poverty and violence of Lagos until he arrived. It was as if people conspired with the city to weave a web of silence around its unsavoury parts.”
• “What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.”
• “He said to me, "It will always be difficult, but if you cry like this every time, you will die of heartbreak. Just know it is enough sometimes to know it is difficult."”
• “We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we are so good at hunting the demons of others? Because we are so good, gifted even, at stalking and evading our own. But all demons hunters think that they are really heroes, and you know what all heroes need?”

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