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    The Trans-African

    Reflections on African Art and Visual Culture

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    2016 Vol. 8

    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

    Ndinda Kioko
    by Ndinda Kioko
    31 August 2016
    # Ndinda Kioko # Trans-African
    2016 Vol. 8

    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

    Emmanuel Iduma
    by Emmanuel Iduma
    31 August 2016
    2016 Vol. 7

    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…

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    31 July 2016
    2016 Vol. 6

    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

    Ndinda Kioko
    by Ndinda Kioko
    29 June 2016
    # Ndinda Kioko # Trans-African
    2016 Vol. 6

    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

    Moses Serubiri
    by Moses Serubiri
    29 June 2016
    2016 Vol. 6

    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

    Emmanuel Iduma
    by Emmanuel Iduma
    29 June 2016
    2016 Vol. 5

    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

    Emmanuel Iduma
    by Emmanuel Iduma
    26 May 2016
    2016 Vol. 5

    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

    Ndinda Kioko
    by Ndinda Kioko
    26 May 2016
    # Ndinda Kioko # Trans-African
    2016 Vol. 5

    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

    Moses Serubiri
    by Moses Serubiri
    26 May 2016
    2016 Vol. 4

    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

    Emmanuel Iduma
    by Emmanuel Iduma
    15 April 2016
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