Dinka Woman with Baby
At an art exhibition in October, I saw an acrylic painting of what I could only guess was a South Sudanese woman with a baby rising out of…
At an art exhibition in October, I saw an acrylic painting of what I could only guess was a South Sudanese woman with a baby rising out of…
At sundown one spring afternoon, in New York City’s West Village, we sat on a bench. We held hands and talked about our pasts. I asked… Read More
Princess Margaret, the British Queen's younger sister, visited Kenya in 1956. On this occasion, the Kenya Colony commissioned an aluminum sculpture resembling two pairs of elephant tusks. Since… Read More
As I write now I recall a memory, a memory of being in my late teens and thinking I’d contracted HIV. I couldn’t tell—and I still… Read More
Something can be said about encounters with strangers in public bathrooms, specifically women bathrooms. There is the horror and discomfort of being with a stranger in… Read More
1 Months ago you changed your profile picture on Facebook to the picture of us dancing around in a circle at your wedding. In the photograph, you… Read More
There is, allegedly, a photograph of Flora Nwapa’s daughter beign carried by Emperor Hailie Selassie when he visited Enugu in 1972. Uzoma Nwakuche, Nwapa’s son, speaks about the… Read More
1. On my first trip to Dar es Salaam I walked around the city on foot and got sunburned so badly that soon my skin peeled off… Read More
"I had no shoes..." Boys always want new shoes. If the shoes are worn for the first time at a long awaited event, like a wedding, it… Read More
I met my paternal great-grandfather for the first time in a photograph taken during his funeral. My father, then a teenager, all his siblings, and everyone… Read More