“In Abu Bakr Sadiq’s Leaked Footages we encounter a speaker addressing us from a richly-imagined future while haunted by the past. The result is an interrogation of the many ways the world can end, the many scales of that apocalypse. These poems haunt me and teach me. Here is a poet I will follow into every future.”—Safia Elhillo, author of Girls That Never Die

“In Abu Bakr Sadiq’s Leaked Footages we enter into a world concerned with untangling the ontological realities of our present-day. Populated with cyborgs and a speaker navigating the violence of their world, there is a deep yearning and precision in the language of these poems aimed at comprehending how we have come to engage one another. The poems here ask what it means to be a person, a Nigerian, a Muslim, in the face of a world so deeply adjudicated by conflict and the myriad lenses of technology. Mediated by the nuances of received narratives, intersecting histories, and family lineages, this book is at once deeply rooted and otherworldly, an oscillation between a kind of distant witnessing, and a meticulously intimate living. Each poem in this collection feels like an arrival!”—Matthew Shenoda, author of The Way of the Earth: Poems