Send us a text Emeka Okereke explores the Igbo language as a vessel of cosmological insight and a lens for re-examining identity. He traces the movement from self to collective consciousness and introduces Nlekota—the Igbo principle of stewardship, a presence that absences nothing. In this episode of Dots of Thoughts, Emeka Okereke unknots the idea of identity through the cosmological depths of the Igbo language. Speaking from lived experience as an artist and thinker, he considers how words ...
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Send us a text Emeka Okereke explores the Igbo language as a vessel of cosmological insight and a lens for re-examining identity. He traces the movement from self to collective consciousness and introduces Nlekota—the Igbo principle of stewardship, a presence that absences nothing. In this episode of Dots of Thoughts, Emeka Okereke unknots the idea of identity through the cosmological depths of the Igbo language. Speaking from lived experience as an artist and thinker, he considers how words ...
EP14: Being Palestinian, a Life of Permanent Temporality – with Bahaa Abudaya
NKATA: Dots of Thoughts
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EP14: Being Palestinian, a Life of Permanent Temporality – with Bahaa Abudaya
Send us a text In 2006, I remember photographing, in Paris, the protest against killings that then took place in Isreal and Palestine. In the photo, a father is clutching his little daughter on one hand, while with the other hand, waves a placard that reads “Le meme age que ma fille” (same age as my daughter). I remember feeling deeply struck by this double emphasis aimed at reiterating what should be so obvious: the trail and ensuing threads of human violence – like mitochondria – run and co...
NKATA: Dots of Thoughts
Send us a text Emeka Okereke explores the Igbo language as a vessel of cosmological insight and a lens for re-examining identity. He traces the movement from self to collective consciousness and introduces Nlekota—the Igbo principle of stewardship, a presence that absences nothing. In this episode of Dots of Thoughts, Emeka Okereke unknots the idea of identity through the cosmological depths of the Igbo language. Speaking from lived experience as an artist and thinker, he considers how words ...