Selected Writings

My writings can be grouped into three major nonfiction categories: travel essay, personal essay, and art essay. There are times when they overlap. In this selection, I’ve tried to organise each piece under the category that is its predominant framing device.


Art Writing

Mobolaji Ogunrosoye: The Manipulation of Appearances’ (ArtReview, 2025)

A Place and Its People’ (Tender Photos, 2025)

An Ode to Shrouds’ (PSP Culture, 2024)

The Unveiling’ (Tender Photos, 2023)

‘For Those to Come’ (Art from Africa: Its Place in Our Lives and Time, 2023)


Travelogue

‘Still Lagos’ (Brick, 2025)

Anansa’ (Doek!, 2024)

To J.P. Clark, On Ibadan’ (Efiko Mag, 2024)

Places’ (Agbowo, 2021)

We’re Strangers in This Land’ (Akuko Magazine, 2021)

Things We See on the Road’ (Lolwe, 2020)


Personal Essay

‘What You Saw’ (Who Gave the Order: The History of a People’s Movement, 2025)

Until the Last Moment’ (Restful, 2024)

The Branches and the Wind and the Rain’ (Isele Magazine, 2023)

The Hunched One’ (The Forge Literary Magazine, 2022)

If You’re Drowning’ (The Voyage Journal, 2020)

Collage’ (Gordon Square Review, 2020)