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Emmanuel Iduma

Emmanuel Iduma is the author of A Stranger’s Pose, which was longlisted for the 2019 Ondaatje Prize, and The Sound of Things to Come, a novel. He received an arts writing grant from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation, for his essays on Nigerian artists. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts, New York. (May 2019)

On Photography, Colonial History, and Collective Memory

“I want photographs to bring me closer to storytelling, to help me understand tragedy.”

October 3, 2020

Dawit L. Petros's 12. Untitled (Epilogue II), Catania, Italy

Italy's History in Africa Reframed

By juxtaposing photographs from Catania and Nefasit, artist Dawit L. Petros suggests a connection between the migration of East Africans to Italy and the legacy of colonialism.

October 3, 2020

Carter bridge street scene, Lagos, Nigeria, 1950s

Cyprian Ekwensi’s Lagos Noir

People of the City is set in the late 1940s to early 1950s, in an unnamed city, at a time when West African countries were clamoring for self-government and independence from Britain.

June 2, 2020

Young soldiers training to fight for the Republic of Biafra in the Biafran War, Nigeria, August 1968

Epitaph for the Biafran War's Lost Youth

The Biafran War, otherwise known as the Nigerian Civil War, lasted from July 6, 1967, until January 15, 1970, during which time an entire generation was wrenched from the future. My uncle was part of that generation.

May 30, 2019

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