Sweet Medicine
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How have Nigerians been taught to think about how to be in the world? Sweet Medicine is a project about the reclamation of the humanities in a post-SAP Nigeria because the humanities are the necessary foundation for genuine and ethical technical and societal development.
Website: sweetmedicine.me / studiostyles.org
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The podcast was funded through an Open Society Foundations Ideas Workshop Fellowship.
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S1E21 “We can give the world beauty, band for band" - Oluwakemi Agbato
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…
S1E20 "It's not if I can, it's how I can." - Mobolaji Otuyelu
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…
S1E19 Chapter 6: Why Take Ownership? What Are Our Bodies Good For?
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…
S1E18 "How do we practice landscape democracy?"- Tobiloba Akibo
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…
S1E17 "Conflict always leaves people transformed." - Gbope Onigbanjo
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.…
S1E16 Chapter 5: Why Nigeria in the first place? (Guns and Spirits)
This episode is six years in the making. Many of us know the Berlin Conference of 1884, otherwise known as the scramble for Africa which was where European leaders decided how to share Africa like…
S1E15 "I think that art should live and die." - Obayomi Anthony
In this episode, I speak with Obayomi Anthony, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist. Our conversation began with a discussion about his background and journey to…
S1E14 “There are no small roles, only small actors.” - Israel Meriomame Wekpe
In this episode, I speak with Mr Israel Meriomame Wekpe, an all-round theatre practitioner. He is a lecturer in Theatre Arts at the University of Benin and directed a play I was a part of in…
S1E13 Chapter 4: Nigeria, the family
This episode is best summarised with the following quote from an essay by adrienne maree brown in YES! Magazine:"The way I think of it now is in the framework of the imagination battle: there is a…
S1E12 “You owe other people a duty of care.” - Gbemi Adekoya
In this episode, I speak with psychotherapist Gbemi Adekoya (@gbemisoke on X) to explore the complexities of trauma, healing, and personal responsibility in interpersonal relationships. I consider…
S1E11 "Memory will break your heart, memory will also heal you." - Didi Cheeka
Didi Cheeka is a filmmaker, archivist and critic. In this profound conversation, we explored shared values as the glue for true belonging, Nigerians’ collective trauma, engaging history and archival…
S1E10 “Resilience is when people have the tools to change.” - Aaliyah O. Ibrahim
In this episode, I spoke with Aaliyah O. Ibrahim, a multidisciplinary artist and international development practitioner about the complexity of Nigerian identity, resilience as a practice of change…
S1E9 Chapter 3: Nigerian Nervous Conditions
I can trace the kernel of this chapter to February last year when I was asked this question by The Republic for their First Draft series: “The bulk of your work (as a writer, researcher, and visual…
S1E8 "Half of our problems will be solved by knowing what our problems are." - Adefolatomiwa Toye
Adefolatomiwa Toye is a PhD student researching how the architectures of Nigeria’s first universities reveal the politics of nation building in our early post-Independence era. This was a fun…
S1E7 "The Nigerian State is very temperamental." - Amarachi Iheke
Amarachi Iheke is a doctoral researcher at Kings College London writing a dissertation on Azanian (South African) resistance anthems. This Saturday, I bring you a really powerful conversation I had…
S1E6 Chapter 2: What do we do with History?
Often I hear young people say, “Thank God our generation is documenting now. Thank God we are only just starting to appreciate archives.” Unfortunately, we are not the first. As Mrs Kudirat Ayoola,…
S1E5 July 6 text club: Rethinking fear, affirming life
This Sunday, I bring you a conversation I had with six people who joined the Studio Styles text club meeting on July 6, 2024. This was our third week of discussing Paolo Freire’s Pedagogy of the…
S1E4 "My brother, drop the mask, come let's talk." - Fr Anselm Adodo
This Saturday, I bring you my conversation with Fr Anselm Adodo, the founder of Nigeria’s leading plant medicine research laboratory, Pax Herbals. Fr Anselm is a Benedictine priest at the Ewu…
S1E3 Chapter 1: Why the Humanities and Social Sciences when people are starving?
In 2020, Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari comforted kidnapped and released school boys in Kankara, Katsina State by telling them that "You children are very lucky. I hope you will be very careful…
S1E2 Intro to Guests
This episode brings snippets from the 14 conversations I had with guests working in the humanities and social sciences and oriented towards social healing in Nigeria. In these conversations, we…
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