Episodios

  • Introducing: Does Your God Sleep?
    Jun 9 2025

    Introducing the 'Does Your God Sleep?' project which explores young Nigerians’ relationship with fear and God through a series of discussions with various individuals over the course of two days in 2023. The seven episodes are a product of an event where an intimate space was designed for inquiry and reflection on spirituality and community. And it is the prototype for a research practice I hope to continue.


    Come with an open mind.

    Knowledge creates options.


    (Worry less, the audio quality of the episodes to come is better than in the snippet in this episode.)


    Website: immaculataabba.com

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  • Update before announcement
    Jun 9 2025

    Hello, Immaculata here. A quick summary of what I’ve been up to so far this year: the Culture Pay Survey aimed at understanding the financial struggles of cultural workers in Nigeria; working on my vision for a public humanities library; and publishing the Restful anthology.


    Culture Pay Report 2025 PDF: https://tinyurl.com/culturepayreport

    Link to buy a copy of Restful: https://restful.ng/products/restful-anthology-print

    A guide for printing art books in Lagos: https://tinyurl.com/printingartbooks

    My printing journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDu375mECGY&list=PL4b3wzw3wISCFYt2t-60tn9GO7U-rHqqe




    Chapters

    00:00 Introduction and Personal Reflections

    01:39 Cultural Work and the Culture Pay Survey

    04:12 The Vision for a Public Humanities Library

    07:01 Publishing Restful


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    12 m
  • Thank You
    Dec 17 2024
    a long THANK YOU yap, a la J. Cole's Note to Self. Merry Christmas. (Forgot to add my thanks to IfeOluwa Nihinlola and Ose Okhilua in the recording! <3 <3 <3)

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    17 m
  • “We can give the world beauty, band for band" - Oluwakemi Agbato
    Dec 15 2024

    For my final guest episode, I’m with the researcher and designer Oluwakemi Agbato who lives by the question: “How can we make good things to live with?” And explores that question through her research and design studio, Studio GB and her jewellery brand RENIKEJI. This conversation was full of passion on both sides for how history continues to live with us in the objects around us.


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    04:41 James Baldwin on Suffering and Achieving One’s Own Authority

    15:06 The Rich History of Nigerian Silk

    19:34 The 1960 Nigeria Exhibition

    22:16 “It becomes real, you’re the one pursuing knowledge, knowledge is not pursuing you.”



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    25 m
  • "It's not if I can, it's how I can." - Mobolaji Otuyelu
    Dec 14 2024

    Today’s conversation is with Mobolaji Otuyelu, the founder of two startups—a kitchenware company AGBO ILÉ and Ọjà Wellness Foods, a beverage company. As an entrepreneur focused on black innovation and social change, Mobolaji is also deeply involved with the Federation of Informal Workers’ Organisations of Nigeria (FIWON), where she collaborates on member-led initiatives to provide tangible support like health insurance, mortgage opportunities, and pension schemes for informal workers. In this conversation we discuss the ties between economic development and healing—the two need each other—, the gift of now and the power of the contemporary.



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    04:02 FIWON: A Model for Informal Workers

    08:48 Resourcefulness in Nigerian Entrepreneurship

    16:15 Healing Through Money and Economic Capital

    25:34 The Gift of Now/Culture is Dynamic


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    Mentioned in the episode:

    https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/


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    Website: sweetmedicine.me

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    Consider joining or supporting Kwanda


    From the founder of Kwanda, Jermaine Craig: "I'm focused on making the world a more generous place. I'm interested in the potential of the collective, not the individual. I want to get future philanthropists started earlier by gathering as 'Micro Philanthropists'. A blocker to generosity is a lack of transparency and trust, so I'm building Kwanda. This platform brings diasporans together to pool capital and fund local-led projects in Africa. The platform is financially transparent and allows members to decide how funds are spent."

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    29 m
  • Chapter 6: Why Take Ownership? What Are Our Bodies Good For?
    Dec 13 2024

    I've spent the past seven weeks discussing why social healing, why the humanities when people are starving, what do we do with History, what are Nigerian nervous conditions, what kind of society is Nigeria and why was Nigeria made in the first place. I set up these questions to give a sense of what the problem is, and how the centuries before now led us here.

    With all this information, how can we work towards these resilient, compassionate and responsible futures? My suggestions: take ownership and pay attention to our bodies.


    This episode includes an excerpt from this talk, What Kids Can't Do: Youth, Historical Agency, and Authority, by Abosede George (Associate Professor of History, Barnard College and Columbia University) at Wolf Humanities Center's 2020-21 Forum on Choice, March 17, 2021.


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    03:21 Is agency all that matters? Abosede George on foregrounding other dimensions of being human

    10:04 Connection comes with risk of loss and failure, connect anyway

    12:47 My body’s my buddy / Body go tell you

    18:24 Denying our self-sovereignty


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    24 m
  • "How do we practice landscape democracy?"- Tobiloba Akibo
    Dec 11 2024


    In this episode, Tobiloba and I talked about transformative environmental justice in Nigeria, Lekki as prime example of land dispossession in Lagos in the name of capitalist modernism, the challenges that come up in translating and applying current popular Western frameworks of social justice in Nigeria, and why we need more Nigerians, individuals and institutions alike, to fund social research.


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    01:19 Lekki, Lekki, Lekki

    07:29 Wetin concern me concern government property?

    11:56 ‘We were only four in my Landscape Architecture class.’

    20:54 Landscape for the people by the people

    29:49 Elsewheres: Transformative environmental justice practices in Nigeria


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    Mentioned:

    Dispossess: Evictions for ‘Development' (Immaculata for Heinrich Böll Foundation, 2021)

    Lagos Urban Development Initiative (LUDI)

    hFactor

    Fabulous Urban

    Folu Oyefeso


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  • "Conflict always leaves people transformed." - Gbope Onigbanjo
    Dec 9 2024

    In this episode, I speak with Gbope Onigbanjo, a researcher and consultant working in the fields of international affairs, peace studies, and political economy with a geographical focus on Africa. Our conversation centred around Nigeria’s role as Big Brother in West Africa and how that has bred skepticism among other states in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). This is a unique episode in this project in that it zooms out a bit from the individual and communities of individuals to look at Nigeria’s relationship with its mates: other countries in West Africa.



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    01:32 Exploring Liberal Peace-Keeping

    03:50 ‘Healing’ as Peace and Security

    05:59 Understanding Peace in African Contexts

    12:25 ECOWAS and Nigeria

    23:18 Elite-based/State Peace vs Local Peace

    27:30 Russian flag in Kano?


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    32 m
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