“I’m still with you” review

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I’m Still With You: Taking Silence, Inheritance, and History into Account Emmanuel Iduma

Fifty-three years after the end of the Biafra War, the effects of the devastating Nigerian civil war remain largely hidden in the public imagination, with the exception of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2006 novel. half of the yellow sun.

A writer born after the war, Iizuma grew up knowing only that one of his namesake uncles had joined the war and never returned home. In this reportage and her melange of memoirs, Izuma wants to know more about her uncle and, by extension, his family. Having just returned to Nigeria after several years in New York, he travels all over Igboland talking to relatives and family friends who may have stories to share. Interspersed with these mostly futile reporting trips, Izuma reflects on his family life (his father recently died) and the origins of the war, sharing research and photographs of his findings.

Early on, it became clear that many of the big questions Iduma had (among them what happened to his uncle chief) would remain unanswered. permeating. The author also lost his mother when he was young.

Iduma arrives in Nigeria as Enders’ protests against police brutality gather momentum and a pro-Biafra separatist group called the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra or IPOB instigate segregation. “How long will the turmoil in Biafra last?” Izuma asks at the end of the book. “It will take time for the Igbo to feel that their war victories have not yet been acknowledged and redeemed.” It’s not even the past. ” —Tomi Ohara ●