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    2016 Vol. 12

    Dinka Woman with Baby

      At an art exhibition in October, I saw an acrylic painting of what I could only guess was a South Sudanese woman with a baby rising out of…

    Moses Serubiri
    by Moses Serubiri
    29 December 2016
    2016 Vol. 12

    Our Hearts as Brief as Photos

      At sundown one spring afternoon, in New York City’s West Village, we sat on a bench. We held hands and talked about our pasts. I asked… Read More

    Emmanuel Iduma
    by Emmanuel Iduma
    29 December 2016
    2016 Vol. 11

    Facing Fragility

    Princess Margaret, the British Queen's younger sister, visited Kenya in 1956. On this occasion, the Kenya Colony commissioned an aluminum sculpture resembling two pairs of elephant tusks. Since… Read More

    Moses Serubiri
    by Moses Serubiri
    30 November 2016
    2016 Vol. 11

    If I Could See Your Face

      As I write now I recall a memory, a memory of being in my late teens and thinking I’d contracted HIV. I couldn’t tell—and I still… Read More

    Emmanuel Iduma
    by Emmanuel Iduma
    30 November 2016
    2016 Vol. 11

    The Writing on the Wall

    Something can be said about encounters with strangers in public bathrooms, specifically women bathrooms. There is the horror and discomfort of being with a stranger in… Read More

    Ndinda Kioko
    by Ndinda Kioko
    30 November 2016
    # Ndinda Kioko # Trans-African
    2016 Vol. 10

    Best Man

    1 Months ago you changed your profile picture on Facebook to the picture of us dancing around in a circle at your wedding. In the photograph, you… Read More

    Moses Serubiri
    by Moses Serubiri
    31 October 2016
    2016 Vol. 10

    Notes on a Misplaced Photograph

    There is, allegedly, a photograph of Flora Nwapa’s daughter beign carried by Emperor Hailie Selassie when he visited Enugu in 1972. Uzoma Nwakuche, Nwapa’s son, speaks about the… Read More

    Emmanuel Iduma
    by Emmanuel Iduma
    31 October 2016
    2016 Vol. 9

    City Boys

    1. On my first trip to Dar es Salaam I walked around the city on foot and got sunburned so badly that soon my skin peeled off… Read More

    Moses Serubiri
    by Moses Serubiri
    30 September 2016
    2016 Vol. 9

    Some Nigerians Behind the Lens (II)

    "I had no shoes..." Boys always want new shoes. If the shoes are worn for the first time at a long awaited event, like a wedding, it… Read More

    Emmanuel Iduma
    by Emmanuel Iduma
    30 September 2016
    2016 Vol. 9

    The Image of Life and Death

    I met my paternal great-grandfather for the first time in a photograph taken during his funeral. My father, then a teenager, all his siblings, and everyone… Read More

    Ndinda Kioko
    by Ndinda Kioko
    30 September 2016
    # Ndinda Kioko # Trans-African
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