a felt sense of Nigerian life, reflected on.

Environmental Politics: Energy, Architecture, and Cities

What Poor Electricity Does to Our Minds — Popula
Disposses: Evictions for Development? —
Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Precious Okoyomon’s Politics of Ecological Revolution —
Inkstick
Sunrise Flour Mill —
zine published by Another Place Press (print only)
hFactor —
The Sole Adventurer’s Collector Series: Artists and Cities (print only)
Can green hydrogen tackle Nigeria’s persistent energy poverty?
— Unbias the News
Ekpere Ji Ji: Middle-Class Igbo Architecture in the 1990s — GIDA Journal, Vol. 1 (print only)
Shared Heritage Africa — on African modernist architecture — DOCOMOMO International
Revisit: New Culture Studios in Ibadan, Nigeria by Demas Nwoko
— The Architectural Review


Social Reproduction: Gender, Domestic & Cultural Labour

Our Bodies, Nigeria’s Ghosts (film) — Goethe-Institut Nigeria post-Memory post-Archive fellowship
Face the Music — on music portraiture and national identity — Wax Poetics
Time and the 1947 Abeokuta Women’s Revolt — History Workshop
Nigeria Online: Capitalism and Feminism — Africa Center
Wana Udobang’s Gospel of Freedom — The Republic


Everyday Life: Ideology, Narrative & Meaning

Will Africapitalism Save Africans? — Le Temps
You Matter to Me (film) — S16 Rising Star Award, 2023 winner
The Fire in My Memory — Isele Magazine/winner of the Abebi Afro-Nonfiction Award, 2023

See a wider selection of my 2021–2024 essays, interviews, and journalism work here.