The Thami Mnyele Foundation welcomes Emmanuel Iduma, who will be part of FOAM invisible borders project opening 21 april 2017.
Emmanuel Iduma, born and raised in Nigeria, is the author of the novel The Sound of Things to Come (first published as Farad in Nigeria) and co-editor of Gambit: Newer African Writing. He has contributed essays on art and photography to a number of journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogues, including Guernica, ARTNews, Aperture, Brooklyn Rail, and The Trans-African. He is the editor of Saraba magazine, which he co-founded.
Until 2016, he was director of publications of Invisible Borders, a trans-African organization based in Nigeria, and participated in four editions of its acclaimed road-trip project. He played a curatorial role in the group's installation A Trans-African Worldspace at the 2015 Venice Biennale.