The Portraits of Men
In the short story The Man by E.B Dongala, “the man” breaks into the president’s palace and kills him. It is not clear how he manages… Read More
Some Nigerians Behind the Lens
In 2010, the designer Ebi Atowodi published Nigerians Behind the Lens, a book containing the work of nine Nigerian photographers. The photographers—Adolphus Opara, Amaize Ojiekere, Andrew Esiebo,… Read More
Writing and The Trans-African
This conversation started via email between the contributing editors of The Trans-African, Ndinda Kioko, Serubiri Moses, and Emmanuel Iduma. We wanted to bring our thoughts on…
The Other Image
Osborne Macharia uses these words to describe one of his recent photography series, Macicio, where he fictionalizes a special unit of five opticians within Kenya’s… Read More
A Web of Evidence
In his book on the early years of Uganda's independence, historian A. B. K. Kasozi notes the tragicomedy that the first president of the country found… Read More
Images of Preachers
According to Christian doctrine, no one has seen God. But there have been attempts to illustrate him. There’s a long religious history of iconoclasm, in which supposed heretical… Read More
The Confession of a Witch
A woman I know, when she was about ten, or a little older, was accused of being possessed by the devil. She does not remember on… Read More
A Memory on the Wall
“Walls are a marvel; don’t you think? I’ve always paid a great deal of attention to what happens on the walls… {…]. And how many times… Read More
Fantastic Image
For LJB Hannah Arendt differentiates between thinking and violence: "a gulf separates the essentially peaceful activities of thinking or laboring and deeds of violence."1 She is certainly… Read More
A Man Smiling to His Death
On Thursday September 9, 1971, the morning after Ishola Oyenusi’s death, his photograph was published on the front page of a national newspaper with the following headline: “Oyenusi… Read More
