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Who are you without community?
There is beauty in nature, not only the ones you can see with your eyes. There is beauty in stillness, not only when your body pushes you to be still. There is…
19. April 2024 -
Art and the Black Identity
Art is subjective yet it holds an objective place in our cultural life. It objectively is considered a creative form that beautifies life, adds a surrealist imagination, or archives historical periods and…
10. April 2024 -
On Joy, Politics of Pleasure and Liberation
Keynote Address at Young European Greens Federation, Greens/EFA Group Feminist, Free and Equal Europe Campaign and Green Rave 01/03/2024 When I think about the legacy of joy and pleasure, I instantly think…
12. March 2024 -
This is a Genocide: Call for Ceasefire, Boycott and Land Back for Palestine
Israel is the perfect example of what happens when the collective trauma of war and genocide go unaddressed and unresolved. The oppressed group repeats the cruel cycle of violence and becomes the…
26. October 2023 -
Grief: The politics of grief, loss and healing
In the past years, most of us have experienced deep loss and emotional trauma that has put some of us in disarray. We are grieving many lives, many experiences, and many unexpressed…
27. April 2022 -
Hope: The Root and the Tree
The current social, political, and economic landscape can leave us with enormous despair. We have access to tragedy after tragedy through social media, television, words of mouth, from many across the globe,…
23. February 2022 -
Queens of Sheba – Theatre Review
“I am a mixture of racism and sexism, they lay equally on my skin passed down by my next of kin. Passed down unknowingly by my next of kin.” Rate: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Soho…
17. February 2022 -
Learning to Dance with Love
Trigger warning: This piece does contain mention of sexual violence and drug usage. This piece is slightly erotic, mostly raw with remembrance and reflection on my encounters with love and lust. The…
9. February 2022 -
Book Review: Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
“What do you do when your life turns into this breaking and resetting of bone, of spirit, of self, of reality?” Someone recently told me that the word they think of when…
7. February 2022 -
SOFTNESSDOUCE
sunny haze, delicate hues red-yellow iroko hard-soled cheap Chanel sandals, 1500 XOF vintage hand woven aso oke monogaga sand okinawa shells holy mary iron lemon and garlic slip brown dress Toumani Diabaté’s…
3. February 2022 -
From heartbreak, flowers bloom
I hope to grow Roots scattered across the forest floor Leaves rising, Yielding towards the moon. To push through the earth To sieve through the grit To meet a glory My glory,…
7. December 2021 -
Musings on Travel
Sometimes the world swallows us whole. Drags us through the mud in order to just be, live, survive this system which encases us. A world where even the beauty that rises from…
12. November 2021 -
Archiving the past, the present and the future. Adeola Aderemi in conversation Lanaire Aderemi
What is the role of the archivist in our society? how do we learn from the past to co-create the future?
Adeola sat down with Lanaire to discuss the important role of archivist in modern Nigerian society and the work of Lanaire Aderemi as an archivist.11. October 2021 -
What does Nigeria owe its people?
“His unfinished education, his joblessness, his hunger, his poverty, all these he found out were different forms of violence. It consisted not of physical, brutal assault but of a slow and graduate…
1. October 2021 -
Finding God Amongst the Living
I look out at the world with questioning eyes and wonder how could all of this be? The beauty of a running river that is hypnotic as it is mysterious, the tallest…
15. June 2021 -
Conversation with Adeola: Get to know our Writer in Residence Her tempest Tongue
Our questions are italicised. When did you know you had to honour your artistic calling and began creating music, poems and what was your push for that decision? As a child, I…
12. May 2021 -
Becoming my Mother, Becoming Myself
When I think of my own relationship with my mother, I think of who she was before she decided to have children and how what she dealt with poured into her relationship with her children. The behaviours she has that I do not like and that affected me are exactly what she received from her own mother as well as a direct influence of her surroundings in Nigeria and what being a woman in that period meant. I definitely know that no matter what, I am my mother’s child and that this means that I will share similar behaviours with her but to truly become myself and separate myself from her own traumas, I have to find myself and reconcile with the rejections that can exist in my own becoming.
12. April 2021 -
The Symbolism of Citizenship: The Threat of the Dual Identity and Colonial Borders
The Symbolism of Citizenship: The Threat of the Dual Identity and Colonial Borders On Friday 26th February 2021, news broke that 21-year-old Shamima Begum will have her British Citizenship revoked. The idea…
15. March 2021
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