Where’s the Future in Nostalgia?
Where’s the future in nostalgia? Once in Igun Street, Benin, a man speaks of the past. He is a war veteran. He fought for the two sides of the Nigerian Civil War. I watch [...]
Month: May 2016
Stereotypes of masculinity in postcolonial Nigeria
During this year’s Invisible Borders road trip, I will be attempting to answer questions around my topic of research: “Stereotypes of masculinity in postcolonial West Africa : [...]
The Roadside Intellectuals #1—”Just to give this a bit of context.”
The first episode of a series of podcasts recorded during the 6th edition of the Invisible Borders Trans-African Road Trip Project. This year, 9 participating artists are traveling by road across 14 states in [...]
On collected Stories in the Private Archive Project
In Benin, I met and conversed with two men. Both had one thing in common: they have experienced the Nigerian Civil war of 1967 to 1970. The first was a war veteran, [...]
A Statement of Intent
There’s a sentence in John Berger’s Here is Where We Meet: “The number of lives that enter ours are incalculable.” I know the meaning of this statement twice—as the culmination of my work on [...]
Verbal Snapshots and other Stories
It’s Day 6 and 314 kilometres have brought us to Benin, the first stop on our road trip. I have passed through Benin many times by road, on my way to Port Harcourt or [...]
Three Notes on Movement
I. A map is a political expression, a projection of an individual truth. Cartography is never an innocuous practice—it is always leaning on a contemptible premise: that an entity must exist on a [...]
Borders Within: The Trans-Nigerian Road Trip
Hundred years after the northern and southern Nigerian protectorates was amalgamated into a single British colony, the remarkable diversity of the country remains apparent. In 2016, Invisible Borders will aim to map this diversity [...]