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A Stranger's Pose

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A Stranger's Pose by Emmanuel Iduma is a unique blend of travelogue, memoir, and photography centred around Iduma's experiences as he journeys across Africa. Combining vivid photographs with reflective essays, the book delves into the beauty and complexities of the continent, capturing moments of connection and introspection with strangers encountered along the way. This narrative invites readers to explore themes of identity, migration, and the universality of human experience.
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You might like this book if you are drawn to a unique blend of travel writing and personal reflection, offering intimate glimpses into the author's encounters across Africa. The narrative style combines poetic prose with evocative photographs, making it perfect for those who appreciate stories that traverse geographical and emotional landscapes.

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Through stories remembered and imagined, and images by acclaimed photographers, A Stranger's Pose draws the reader into a world of encounters in more than a dozen African towns. Iduma blends memoir, travelogue, and storytelling in these fragments of a traveller's journey across several African cities.

Inspired by the author's travels with photographers between 2011 and 2015, the author's own accounts are expanded to include other narratives about movement, estrangement, and intimacy.

These include: an arrest in a market in N'djamena, being punished by a Gendarmes officer on a Cameroonian highway, and meeting the famed photographer Malick Sidibe in Bamako.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781911115496

Publisher: Cassava Republic Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 October 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Cassava Republic Press

Illustration: 39 black and white photographs

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Teju Cole
  • By Abraham Oghobase
  • By Adeola Olagunju
  • By Dawit L Petros
  • By Emeka Okereke
  • By Eric Gottesman
  • By Jide Odukoya
  • By Michael Tsegaye

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 208.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 216

About the Author

Emmanuel Iduma is editor of Saraba magazine, and a faculty member of the MFA Art Writing program at the School of Visual Arts, New York. He is the author of The Sound of Things to Come (The Mantle, 2016) and co-editor of Gambit: Newer African Writing (The Mantle, 2014). His essays on art and photography have been published widely and he has received the 2018 Creative Capital/The Andy Warhol Foundation Grant in Art Writing. In 2017, he was associate curator of the Nigerian pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

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