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Emmanuel Iduma
Nonfiction
“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
“Being With.” On writing and affinities.
AGNI.
(2023)
“Finding Form.” On writing
I Am Still With You.
n+1
.
(2023)
“Tender Light.” The bond between photography and narrative.
The Yale Review
.
(2022)
‘
The Spoils of a Savage War
.’ On David Diop’s
At Night All Blood is Black
, for
The New York Revie
w of Books
(2022)
“Man of Scarce Means.”
n+1
(2021)
“What Will Tutuola Do.” An essay on the novels of Amos Tutuola and his relationship to language.
Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War
(2021). An earlier version in
Tate Papers
.
An Introduction to Cyprian Ekwensi’s
People of the City
.
(2020). Read online in the
New York Review of Books
.
“How to be a Travel Writer in Africa.”
LitHub
.
(2018)
On Ingrid Winterbach’s
The Elusive Moth.
Music & Literature
(2014)
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