A Stranger's Pose

Through stories remembered and imagined, and images by acclaimed photographers, A Stranger''s Pose draws the reader into a world of encounters in more than a dozen African towns. Iduma blends memoir, travelogue and storytelling in these fragments of a traveller-s journey across several African cities. Inspired by the author-s travels with photographers between 2011 and 2015, the author''s own accounts are expanded to include other narratives about movement, estrangement, and intimacy. These include: an arrest in a market in N-djamena, being punished by a Gendarmes officer on a Cameroonian highway and meeting the famed photographer Malick Sidibe in Bamako.