Emmanuel Iduma
Emmanuel Iduma is a Nigerian writer, editor, publisher, and art critic. He is the co-founder of Saraba Magazine and the author of The Sound of Things to Come. He teaches in the MFA Art Writing Program at School of Visual Arts, New York City.Career
Iduma was born in Nigeria in 1989 to a preacher and schoolteacher. He studied law for five years at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife. He also has an MFA in Art Criticism and Writing from the School of Visual Arts, New York City.
As an undergraduate, with fellow students Dami Ajayi and Ayobami Adebayo, he founded Saraba Magazine, its first issue being published in 2009. Saraba is now widely regarded as "one of Africa's biggest online literary magazines" It launched its first print edition at the Aké Arts and Book Festival in November 2017.
In December 2012, Parrésia Publishers published Iduma's first novel, Farad. It is described by Tolu Ogunlesi as "an impressive house of words – dream-like, haunting, elusive – standing confidently at a frontier, signalling the immense promise of an emerging generation of Nigerian novelists." BellaNaija says it "provides the right blend of emotion, perspective, history and introspection." In 2016, the novel was republished in North America as The Sound of Things to Come.
In March 2017, Iduma curated the first ever Nigerian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with Adenrele Sonariwo
He currently teaches in the MFA Art Writing Program at School of Visual Arts, New York City.
