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I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History

byEmmanuel Iduma

Emmanuel Iduma travels through Nigeria to understand the uncle who disappeared during the Biafran War and the family silence surrounding him. Photographs, landscapes, archives, conversations, and imagination become tools for approaching a life that official history and private grief left incomplete. The memoir connects one absence with the war's mass death, displacement, and unresolved place in Nigerian memory. Iduma acknowledges the limits of recovery, asking how descendants inherit events they cannot fully know. His search becomes a meditation on mourning, artistic responsibility, and remaining in relationship with the missing.

Publisher

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781643751016