Emeka Okereke

Writing

Commissioned

Written for a journal, a press or a publication.

  1. Emisferi / Hemispheres, no. 2/2026, Rivista La Biennale di Venezia

    A Roadside Philosophy

    2026

    Words and photographs by Emeka Okereke in the second 2026 issue of the Biennale’s quarterly review, in its Materials section: the Trans-African road as method, and as a place from which inherited maps of separation are questioned.

    Open the text Visit the Biennale issue Read the essay at Invisible Borders

  2. The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies

    Photography & Trans-Africanism: A Story of Journeys

    2024

    The essay that names the method running beneath the photographic work: Trans- as going beyond while crossing back and forth, the way an exchange does.

    Wherever there is exchange, a boundary is traversed into unfamiliar spheres where another dimension takes on existence.

    Open the text Read the full chapter — open access

  3. FIELD: A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism, Issue 17

    A Volatile Negotiation Between the Past and Present: Invisible Borders Trans-African Project

    Winter 2021

    The essay in which the journey’s thought and the road fragments written along it enter a broader articulation of the Invisible Borders method.

    Open the text Read the essay

Medium

Shorter pieces, published as they were written.

  1. Nkata

    Reflections on Akinbode’s “Wanderings”

    23 April 2021

    A reader’s written reflection on the conversation, published on Nkata.

    Open the text Read the reflection

Writing made as part of the artistic practice — the Borderbeing essays among it — is listed with the work: Writings, under Works

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