by Christian Emmanuel Bruku
Nanjala Nyabola’s Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move is a thought-provoking collection of travel reflections that probe what it means to move through a world that is hostile to Blackness, genderness, and foreignness. Nyabola’s methodological approach combines a multi-country
case study with a feminist poststructuralist lens, weaving her own lived experiences into broader political and historical contexts. This combination offers both scholarly depth and narrative accessibility, drawing readers into complex discussions on migration, borders, humanitarianism, and power, while grounding them in the realities of people whose mobility is constrained by systemic injustice. The author demonstrates that racialised, gendered, and classed mobilities are not confined to specific geographies, but are transnational, cutting across the Global North and South
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