A review by half_book_and_co
A Stranger's Pose by Emmanuel Iduma

4.0

Emmanuel Iduma's A Stranger's Pose is a beautiful and necessary book: There is so few (published) African travel writing and this is book is a stellar example. Small vignettes, between prose and poetry, tell from Iduma's travels through several towns in several African countries. This is travelogue, memoir, and essay. Iduma reflects on traveling, different places, and the people we meet. But as much as this is a book about traveling it is one about photography. Not only are photographs included but Iduma interrogates the history of photography, the ways pictures are taken and the connections photography (or just the presence of a camera) can foster or disrupt.