Contraband Bodies

By Jide Salawu

Contraband Bodies is a debut to be reckoned with. Jide Salawu shines in this personal record of migratory travails and a country lost to precarious politics. A conscious elegy of displacement and home regained through the tribute of roads, evoking diasporic conditions by highlighting syncopated language through pixelated imagery and lapidary details the diverse circumstances of being a Black migrant in Africa, Europe, and America. Contraband Bodies is a cogitation on the agony of Atlantic memories and dispersal. It confronts new forms of digital kinship activated through social waves across diasporic landscape. In Contraband Bodies, Salawu performs a poetic remittance on current exodus within Africa and outside of it as a form of resistance against all forms of oppression against Black migrant subjects in the world today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1774391260
• ISBN13: 9781774391266
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: NeWest Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.9"