Scott Timberg (18 februari 2007). ”Living in the "perfect metaphor"”. Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2007/feb/18/entertainment/ca-abani18. Läst 31 juli 2010. ”But even before he became one of the rare Africans in the Phoenix Inn and one of the few blacks living in East L.A., Abani was what he calls 'an outsider's outsider.' He grew up in small Nigerian cities, the son of an Igbo educator father and a white English-born mother who'd met at Oxford, where she was a secretary and he was a post-doc student. Raised Roman Catholic, Abani studied in the seminary as a teenager.”
