Hi, I’m Immaculata, an artist and researcher thinking about the Nigerian left, healing and the humanities.
In the past two months I met so many people with different kinds of very wonderful light who have left their marks on me; I currently have rainbows for sleeves. Current obsession: Jacques Depelchin, for his exploration of the link between historical knowledge and collective freedom. Also, I’m listening to James Blake’s Fire the Editor on repeat.
- March 2024
portfolio highlights:
The Fire in My Memory, winner of 2023 Abebi Award in Afro-Nonfiction
You Matter to Me, short film (Rising Star award, S16 film festival 2023)
Whom Did He Love?, The Brooklyn Rail
In the Dark in Nigeria, Popula
what poor electricity does to our minds
Precious Okoyomon’s politics of ecological revolution, Inkstick Media
Facing the Music, Wuruwuru/ Wax Poetics
on re-constructed Nigerian identities in 1970s album covers
Will Africapitalism Save Africa?, Le Temps
Still in Enugu, Lolwe
my 2019 answer to people asking how Enugu feels to me
My First Draft Interview with The Republic
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