17/09/2026
Dr Henry Obi Ajumeze's article “Gbenga Adeoba’s Exodus and explorations of transhemispheric history of the seas” has been published in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Beyond exploring transhemispheric oceanic histories to connect Black Mediterraneanism with Atlantic History in their thanatic politics as zones of blackdeath, the paper raises fundamental questions about the poetic representation of dead and silent migrants who disappeared at Europe’s maritime borders: “How […] can the poet ethically bear witness to what has not been experienced first-hand, and how might poetry address the inherent absence of testimony from those whose stories it seeks to tell? What creative strategies can writers employ to ensure their own voices amplify rather than overshadow those who directly suffered and died in these events?”
Gbenga Adeoba’s Exodus examines the Mediterranean migrant crisis through a transhemispheric framework that connects contemporary displacement with the transatlantic slave trade and the Black Atlant...
