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Review
& feature essays in Art in America, where I’ve worked as
contributing writer: On Stephen Shore, Malick Sidibé, Coreen Simpson, the Lagos
Biennial, and AI and the future of photography. And more.
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3 short essays in ArtReview:“The Afterlives of the
Colonial Gaze,” “Bruno Barbey’s Eye
Outside the Storm,” and “‘A Moment of Distraction’:
Photographing Chinua Achebe.”
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Essays,
reviews, and interviews in Aperture: a wide-ranging conversation with M.
Neelika Jayawardane, essays on LagosPhoto, Arguiñe Escandón and Yann Gross’s work, Mame
Niarra-Diang’s photobook, interviews with David Alekhuogie and David Adjaye, and a profile of Theo Eshetu.
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Two
essays in Tate Etc: “Flash
Back” (On photographs in A
World in Common, an exhibition of contemporary African photography) & “Brief
Propositions for Modern Art in Nigeria” (on the Nigeria Modernism
exhibition at Tate)
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A
few essays in the New York Review of Books: “‘Gone Like a Meteor’: Epitaph
for the Lost Youth of the Biafran War.” “Italy’s Colonial History in Africa
Reframed” (on the work of Dawit L. Petros and Maaza Mengiste), and “The Spoils of a Savage War” (a review of At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop)
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In Granta: “Traveling Secretary” (on itinerancy in my family), and “My Favourite
Book of 2019” (an appreciation of Hisham Matar’s A Month in Sienna)
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“Tender
Light.” On the bond betweeen photography and narrative. Yale Review
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Two
essays in n+1: “Man of Scarce Means,” (On translating an Igbo novel) and
“Finding Form” (on the process of writing I Am Still With You).
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“The
Colonizer’s Archive is a Crooked Finger.” Catapult.