Emmanuel Iduma: Port Harcourt: An Outpost City

Emmanuel Iduma is the co-publisher of Saraba, Editor of 3bute and Content Management Supervisor of Invisible Borders Trans-African Photography Organization. He has been called to the Nigerian Bar, and he is the author of Farad, a novel.

From YNaija: I believe it was in Port Hacourt, in the early 90s, that I entered the world of books. My father, at that time a Travelling Secretary with the Scripture Union, began gathering books. His affinity for Christian literature had begun in the early 70s, when he became born again, and when he was admitted into the University of Ife. By the time we began living in Port Harcourt, I am not certain how many books he had acquired, but the fact that two years later I wrote my first manuscript, suggests the accompanying (osmotic) presence of my father’s fledging library in Port Harcourt.

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