FORTUNATE TRAVELLER

Welcome to the travel theatre/ where transition is key. — Dami Ajayi, 'On Airports I'
Essay & Review

Made in Communist China: A Review of Solomon Elusoji’s Travelling with Big Brother by Femi Morgan

April 3, 2020

Title: Travelling with Big Brother: A Reporter’s Junket in China Author: Solomon Elusoji Publisher: Question Marker Number of pages: 158 Year of publication: 2019 Category: Travel/Nonfiction A lot of Nigerians encountered China through its movies and low-grade products which enabled them to acquire utilities that would normally cost an arm and a leg. The Orwellian model of China is usually lost on many Nigerians. We are further exposed to China by…

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Essay & Review

‘And The Truth Shall Set You Free’: A Review of Yinka Elujoba’s Collective Truth by Adebayo Adegbite

March 27, 2020

Title: Collective Truth Author: Yinka Elujoba Publisher: Invisible Borders Trans-African Project Number of pages: 36 Year of publication: 2016 Category: Travel/Nonfiction The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there will be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. – Susan Sontag, The Benefactor. In reading Yinka Elujoba’s Collective Truth, it is important to understand where it is…

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News & Announcement

Covid-19: Travel Warning

March 22, 2020

Dear esteemed readers, writers, and travellers, We would like to implore you to be mindful of the new global health crisis, the Covid-19 outbreak. Please adhere to the warnings and advice of your government and of the World Health Organisation and other health-related organisations regarding the curbing of the virus and the measures you must take to avoid it. Wash your hands, avoid large gatherings, and most importantly, postpone your…

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Essay & Review

Of Encounters and Connections: A Review of Emmanuel Iduma’s Lives that Enter Mine by Blessing Uche

March 20, 2020

Title: Lives That Enter Mine Author: Emmanuel Iduma Publisher: Invisible Borders Trans-African Project Number of pages: 32 Year of publication: 2016 Category: Travel/Nonfiction In Lives That Enter Mine by Emmanuel Iduma, every encounter is a story that the writer tells in segments and unfolds as if one is leafing through a photo album. This book is an output of the Borders Within 2016 Road Trip by Invisible Borders. Invisible Borders is committed to…

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Essay & Review

Opening Portals to Troubled Histories: A Review of Uche Okonkwo’s What the Road Offers by Matthew Lecznar

March 13, 2020

Title: What the Road Offers Author: Uche Okonkwo Publisher: Invisible Borders Trans-African Project Number of pages: 36 Year of publication: 2016 Category: Travel/Nonfiction ‘That they did not die in vain’ (p.2). This potent adage, so often employed as a way of marking and memorialising the end of wars and conflicts, also embodies ideas of opening and enlivening at the beginning of Uche Okonkwo’s 2016 travel narrative What the Road Offers. Emblazoned upon the…

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Photography, Photography & Art

The Glories of Uzbekistan by Alessio Viviani

December 13, 2019

The time frame of this short film is exactly 3:17 minutes. But it features twenty-three unique images of Uzbekistan set to a mesmeric temperate ambient score titled ‘Emotions’ by Cinematic Sounds. Collectively, these images transcend even the lens that captured them. From the monuments in Tashkent to the mosques in Samarkand, and architectural beauties in Bukhara and the fortress-city of Khiva, UNESCO World Heritage site, they explore the glories that…

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Non-fiction

Uganda through my Nigerian Eyes by Temitayo Olofinlua

December 6, 2019

The first time I saw Uganda, it was through Barbara Oketta Musiime’s eyes. Those small eyes that carried many stories – Kony, Northern Uganda, Femrite, Museveni, Amin, porridge – and left many unsaid. It was 2012; we were both residents at the Ebedi Writers’ Residency in Iseyin, Oyo state. Some of the unsaid things, my own eyes would see six years later.  On August 14, 2018 when my feet kissed…

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Poetry

Recovery by Jo Weston

November 29, 2019

Recovery Seas of enlivening magenta under a sky of azure blue, frame a canary in an avocado tree.Lizards sunbathe on the path below. Leaves of banana trees sway in the breeze,as farmers wrap the fruit in sapphire andthe sea, enveloping pebbles, pulls them back to bed. The sun lowers its glow behind the mountainas the scent of jasmine fills the air, while, from a cobbled alley, comes the sound of…

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Poetry

Night Gods at Feast by Kechi Nomu

September 5, 2019

I. Night Gods at FeastAfter Wendy Xu’s Several Altitudes of Not Talking a sign here reads: Sell your deadInvert the batteries. this is, of course, an error. mine or the sign maker’s. our headlights in lieu of distance, travel the length of eyes.      anoint the sheen              of a gate. we approach at this uncontrollable hour night gods at feast; local beer and pink-bodied chickens held in a spit:the world is a puzzle…

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Non-fiction

A Bridge Between Learning and Mourning by Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè

July 5, 2019

For a moment, I complimented myself on timing my arrival when I saw the heavy traffic on the other lane of the Third Mainland Bridge – sense will not kuku kill me. It was night, the rush hour of Lagos traffic. Traffic was free on my lane – towards Lagos Island – like a deserted highway. The other side was a gridlock of people getting away from the Island, characteristic…

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