Welcome to Studio Styles.

Between 2019 and 2024, I made a freelance writing, research and art career out of the question: How are Nigerians making a living, finding belonging and making meaning of the worlds within and around us—our work, our cultures, our ideas?

Studio Styles became my workshop for tinkering with ideas and projects designed to strengthen our connections with ourselves, our histories, our communities and the environment.

In its first phase, I produced:

• The pilot for A Repository of Everyday Nigerian Thought (ARENT) that asks what do we believe?

• The Sweet Medicine podcast on humanities education in Nigeria, a manifesto for the dream library I hope to run one day, that asks how do we heal?

• A publishing arm, which released its first anthology, Restful, that asks how do we cope?

• A community space, #CulturePays, supporting culture workers in Africa with a monthly opportunities newsletter, text clubs, workshops, micro-grants, and a national survey/report on the economic realities of creatives and cultural organisers in Nigeria. This is a space that asks how do we afford to keep going?

Right now, I'm re-gathering myself, composting—reflecting and clearing space—for Studio Styles' next phase. I see more research ahead on West African infrastructures (hard and soft), deeper experiments in mutual value exchange, and the continued blooming of a dream: a library that is also an independent press, documentary house, and public education centre. And more declarations, in cash and in kind, that #CulturePays.

As God wills it.

Abba,

July 2025.