<p>Finalist for the Hurston/Write Legacy Award 2024</p>
<p>‘A thorough and thoughtful reporter, Iduma explains how it has become taboo in Nigerian culture to discuss the war, and uses his family’s own tragedy to tell the devastating story of a country that has not been allowed to properly mourn its dead. <em>I Am Still With You</em> is a deeply felt eulogy for those who were lost and a sobering reflection on the shame that comes with silence’ <strong><em>Time </em>Magazine<em>, </em>The 100 Must-Read Books of 2023</strong></p>
<p>‘A lyrical investigation into the nature of being, history, the collective memory of Biafra – a dark chapter in world history. Iduma writes with such startling clarity that the book ultimately becomes both powerful and transcendent’</p>
<p>Chigozie Obioma, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of <em>The Fishermen</em> and <em>An Orchestra of Minorities</em></p>
<p>‘A genre-defying work, <em>I Am Still with You</em> is a quest, both spiritual and real, a travelogue, a memoir, and a history of Biafra … Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered, and deeply affecting – a masterful achievement’</p>
<p>Aminatta Forna, author of <em>The Devil That Danced on the Water</em></p>
<p>‘Iduma confronts and contemplates the wounds left by the Biafran war: death on a mass scale; deaths in his family; griefs, angers and questions that still plague the living. <em>I Am Still With You</em> is both epic and intimate. It gives us the beauties and consolations of an ethnical imagination’</p>
<p>Margo Jefferson, author of <em>Negroland</em></p>
<p>‘In clear, elegiac prose, Iduma’s search leads to an affecting conclusion’ <em>New Statesman</em></p>
<p>‘Iduma’s quietly brilliant new book … blends travelogue, reportage, criticism, memoir, and history in a hypnotic tale’</p>
<p><em>Vulture</em>, Best Books of 2023</p>
<p>‘An immersive memoir … Iduma’s unraveling of the past is bound to leave readers eager to uncover their own family secrets’ <em>Publishers Weekly</em></p>