Emmanuel Iduma
Nonfiction
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“Traveling Secretary.” Granta (2021)
“To the Follower of Chiekh Amadou Bamba I Met in Dakar.” Off Assignment / The Best American Travel Writing 2020 (2019/2020)
“How Desire Holds a Plea.” On love and sensuality, Extra Extra (2021).
“‘Gone Like a Meteor’: Epitaph for the Lost Youth of the Biafran War.” The New York Review of Books (2019)
“My Life as a Wave.” Some photographs and a short essay. Open Space (2017)
“The Colonizer’s Archive is a Crooked Finger.” Catapult. (2017)
“The Sum of Encounters.” A travelogue for the Carnegie Int’l, 57th ed., 2018 (2017)
“My Heart Is as Brief as Photos.” A narrative on photography, New York, and diasporas. Photographie et Oralité Dialogues à Bamako, Dakar et ailleurs (2016)
Essays
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