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NKATA is an Igbo word from the language spoken by the Igbo people of Nigeria. It simply means "Conversation".
Dots of Thoughts
I often wake up in the morning with thoughts reeling in my head. Thoughts inspired by a conversation with someone; something I read, heard, listened to (music/podcasts), a film I saw, a photograph I made, an essay/poem I wrote, or in broad terms, an impactful encounter.
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Nkata Episode 4 with Otobong Nkanga: Video Excerpt
Episode 04 of Nkata features 117 mins conversation between Emeka Okereke (host) and the visual/performance artist Otobong Nkanga. Here is a 10 mins video excerpt of the conversation. The...
NKATA with Jihan El-Tahri
Episode 3 of Nkata is in the making. For now, here is a video-excerpt of the podcast. In this episode, Emeka Okereke is in conversation with Jihan El-Tahri, an...
NKATA with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
For the second episode of NKATA, Emeka Okereke is in conversation with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung – a curator and art critic based in Berlin but working in a...
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Nkata Episode 4 with Otobong Nkanga: Video Excerpt
Episode 04 of Nkata features 117 mins conversation between Emeka Okereke (host) and the visual/performance artist Otobong Nkanga. Here...
NKATA with Jihan El-Tahri
Episode 3 of Nkata is in the making. For now, here is a video-excerpt of the podcast. In this...
Blog
Nkata Episode 4 with Otobong Nkanga: Video Excerpt
Episode 04 of Nkata features 117 mins conversation between Emeka Okereke (host) and the visual/performance artist Otobong Nkanga. Here...
EP12: Memory, Performance, Healing and Celebration in the Photographic works of Lebohang Kganye.
In the 12th Episode of Dots of Thoughts, Emeka Okereke reflects on the photographic work of Lebohang Kganye. Ke Lefa Laka:...
EP11: 21st Century Photographers Re-articulate The Continent – with Ekow Eshun
“There is no simplicity or singleness to Africanness”, Ekow says. One might think that this needn’t be said in 2021. This is precisely what this book hopes to achieve: These photographers show that such concerns have become secondary to image-makers of today.
EP08: “If I write for them, it means I am removing myself from my source”. Nkata with Niq Mhlongo
Niq Mhlongo (b. 1973, Soweto) is a South African writer born in Johannesburg. Today, he is considered “one of the most...