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Emmanuel Iduma

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Emmanuel Iduma

‘Kanuri’, undated. (Photographer unknown)
ABUJA

Extract from ‘The Journey’: Responses to the archive

This sequence of texts was written in response to various photographs of Nigeria made between 1920 and 1929 that form part of the Colonial Office photographic collection

  • Emmanuel Iduma
7 min read
Secessionist leader Isaac Adaka Boro, who in 1966 turned himself to the authorities. As the writer notes, the faces of Ologbosere and Boro, both destined to be executed, are tranquil, even foreknowing, as if the matter is settled. (Records Administration )
ADAKA BORO

Measures of Power: Our interest in violent, public justice

How the theatre of execution contributes to national mythmaking in Nigeria

  • Emmanuel Iduma
14 min read