yeama h. bangura

essays

  • Tomb of Technology

    A creative response to the exhibit ‘The Temple of Dendur’ on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated 7.20.17. What is your intention? When you hold a screen up to your face, attempting to capture an image to share, who are you benefitting? Those pictures often have no personality. There is no intention behind…

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  • GODS COUNTY

    Is it God in these one-off exchanges? Did I catch a glimmer in an elder’s smile, or in the shadow of a poor panhandler? I watch kids kick over needles and laugh, continuing to run along. The hollowed plastic hitting pavement echoes in my ears, louder than their giggles. They know what that is and…

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Yeama H. Bangura is a writer and cultural essayist interested in the strange relationship between the self and the world around it. Her work draws from philosophy and personal experience to question the ways language, relationships, technology, and social structures shape the realities we inhabit. Her writing has been published in perediza.