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Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organisation. Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organisation. October 18, 2014. Visit and presentation of an art-led initiative the Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organisation. And project “From Lagos to Sarajevo” (Nigeria, Africa). The road trip project is an attempt to draw a tangible line of connection across chosen geographic locations in order to transcend the limitations proposed by the existing demarcating lines.
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I Offer Now My Body – BORDERS WITHIN: The Trans-Nigerian Road Trip
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Sponsors & Partners. I Offer Now My Body. How is the past so unpredictable? Night after night and so near, how did we manage to appease our inclination to hurt each other? Now, dear reader, as I leave the road, I offer you my thinking face. I offer my body strained from weeks of travel. I really don’t know what you wish to do with it. Featured photograph by Emeka Okereke. A Concerto for All the Walks I Have Taken. Who are you, really? Leave A Comment Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published.
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An Inventory of Thoughts (2) – BORDERS WITHIN: The Trans-Nigerian Road Trip
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Sponsors & Partners. An Inventory of Thoughts (2). First act was to wake up to a view of the city. Somewhere behind that view is the confluence of the Rivers Niger and Benue. Some time around 1914, a certain Flora Shaw stood at the peak of Mount Patti (with her view a good part of the Niger-area ), from where she exclaimed: Nigeria! A country was born from an amalgamation of kingdoms and cultures. What is the distance of enternity? If your fears are God. My head is the size of my world. How do you measur...
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Emeka Okereke – BORDERS WITHIN: The Trans-Nigerian Road Trip
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Sponsors & Partners. An Inventory of Thoughts (2). Lokoja. First act was to wake up to a view of the city. Somewhere behind that view is the confluence of the Rivers Niger and Benue. Some time around 1914, a certain Flora Shaw [.]. An Inventory of Thoughts. Kano After 7 hours of journey, we got here. At this stage in the journey, it feels like time is slipping through the crevices of the palms. Nostalgia is already lurking around once in [.]. Thought Shots (1): Benin to Warri. Sponsors & Partners.
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Men Who Wait on the Street – BORDERS WITHIN: The Trans-Nigerian Road Trip
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Sponsors & Partners. Men Who Wait on the Street. Walking on the Lokoja-Okenne road, I saw men with shovels and hoes, waiting. Only seven in the morning, they dallied beside the road. What moves me to remember them? The growing number of idle men? Or, in their poses and glances, how difficult it was to distinguish them from displayed wares: bread loaves and Coca-Cola, groundnuts and water, biscuits and akara. Who will hire them? Who will make them less dispensable, worthy today, worthless tomorrow? Who ar...
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Home of Peace – BORDERS WITHIN: The Trans-Nigerian Road Trip
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Sponsors & Partners. Two heads are better. As we proceeded further north toward Maiduguri, I thought about the things that could happen that would make people say: What were you doing in Maiduguri? You don’t like your life abi? Or do you have two heads? Photo by Zaynab Odunsi. What is in a name? 8216;The Maiduguri gaze’ Photo by Emeka Okereke. There are no quick fixes or simple answers, but this much is sure: Borno is more than just a place for counting dead. There is a Fear That Binds. An Inventory of T...
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BORDERS WITHIN: The Trans-Nigerian Road Trip – Page 2 – Mapping diversity across regions, states and ethnic formations in Post-Colonial Nigeria
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Sponsors & Partners. An Inventory of Thoughts. Kano After 7 hours of journey, we got here. At this stage in the journey, it feels like time is slipping through the crevices of the palms. Nostalgia is already lurking around once in [.]. Teach Me How to Make Time. They told me how, in my absence, a bullet by armed robbers had fallen into their room, close to the bed, splintering the glass window. How, as one of my friends descended to the hotel [.]. Ten Notes on Movement. My Life Has Many Uses. A man’s con...
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To be a man. – BORDERS WITHIN: The Trans-Nigerian Road Trip
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Sponsors & Partners. To be a man. I have been putting questions about prevalent thoughts on masculinity to people we have met over the last 36 days of the road trip. Although the responses have been in many ways predictable, I was particularly curious about the nuances in the stereotypes as we travelled to the more conservative regions of Northern Nigeria. Ismail Bashir, Kevin Inuwa. Taking responsibility, being responsible for people in your family, this makes you a man. But that is not my own path.
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Yinka Elujoba – BORDERS WITHIN: The Trans-Nigerian Road Trip
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Sponsors & Partners. Final Notes on Movement. Brethren, let us now hear the end of the whole matter: A. Movement is a dialogue in continuum: the body and the mind are always in crisis, trying to reimagine what they [.]. A Concerto for All the Walks I Have Taken. 1 I have always imagined the most potent way of reducing immapancy to be putting feet on the ground, and breathing the air of a place. So I began to walk in Umuahia. Early [.]. After the Full Stop. There is a Fear That Binds. Ten Notes on Movement.
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