A review by bukolayemi
I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History by Emmanuel Iduma

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I personally really enjoyed reading about Emmanuel Iduma’s personal search for the history about the Nigeria-Biafra civil war. His account of his search is filled with a good dose of emotion and facts. 

His writing starts with the End SARS movement and ends with it. I couldn’t help thinking that this was like a fresh war. 

He writes tenderly about his wife who is one of my absolute favourite authors and Yoruba. It is not lost on me that Emmanuel is writing about a war that was meant to tear Igbo and Yoruba people apart while declaring his undying love for his precious wife and truest companion. 

I love the fact that there is a family tree and a map of Nigeria showing both the Original Biafra Border (July 1967 - Dec. 1969) and the Final Biafra Border (Dec. 1969 - Jan 1970).