The Fire in My Memory (2023)

Focus: Collective trauma and the moral architecture of infrastructural development

Summary:
In The Fire in My Memory, I revisit the 2005 Sosoliso plane crash—one of Nigeria’s most haunting public tragedies—through the lens of personal and collective memory. It meditates on how infrastructural failure across an airline, an emergency response system, and a governance structure becomes a site of collective injury; private wounds, civic condition.

Moving between the body and the body politic, the essay circles a larger question I carry in my days/my work: what forms of love, faith and community survive in a county that cannot guarantee safety or protection?

Read more: https://iselemagazine.com/2023/12/12/the-fire-in-my-memory-immaculata-abba/