Writing
Commissioned
Written for a journal, a press or a publication.
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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
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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.
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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.
Medium
Shorter pieces, published as they were written.
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Nkata
Reflections on Akinbode’s “Wanderings”
23 April 2021
A reader’s written reflection on the conversation, published on Nkata.
Writing made as part of the artistic practice — the Borderbeing essays among it — is listed with the work: Writings, under Works