In this episode of Dots of Thoughts, Emeka Okereke enters into reflections with Sophia Chimaoge Nelz, a 12th grade high school student researching the history and meaning of Igbo Landing for her school assignment. Beginning with a historical event from 1803, the conversation gradually unfolds into broader questions around memory, language, and continuous re-enactment of…
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In this episode of Dots of Thoughts, Emeka Okereke reads and reflects from a freshly written essay titled A Meditation on Light. The episode begins from a simple physical fact: light has no mass. Light has no weight. From this point, the reflection opens into a meditation on light as that which illuminates without force,…
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On Easter Sunday morning, moving from a dream-state clarity into waking reflection, this episode unfolds around the question of the “I” and its relation to the self. The “I” appears here as a fixed point—a scaffolding through which the “me” is constructed, accumulated, and named. In contrast, the “I am” emerges as presence without anchor:…
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Since “work” is the bane of our lives — that is, from the moment we are born to the moment we die, we are at work — should we not strive to understand what it means beyond extraction and peddling of labour? In this episode, Emeka Okereke continues his long-running examination of concepts and societal…
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What begins as a chance meeting in Berlin becomes a conversation—one that moves attentively through difference, identity, and the long, uneven arc of returning to oneself. In dialogue with guest Tamia Hill (Mia), host Emeka Okereke reflects alongside her on how encounters—with people, places, and moments—serve as relational thresholds through which the self becomes legible…
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Emeka Okereke explores the Igbo language as a vessel of cosmological insight and a lens for re-examining identity. He traces the movement from self to collective consciousness and introduces Nlekota—the Igbo principle of stewardship, a presence that absences nothing. In this episode of Dots of Thoughts, Emeka Okereke unknots the idea of identity through the…
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In this episode of Dots of Thoughts, Emeka Okereke takes us beyond the Cartesian dictum “I think, therefore I am,”unraveling how this foundational idea has shaped—and distorted—the modern mind. With poetic lucidity, he reveals how thought, once a useful tool, has become a false guarantor of being, leading to fragmentation, anxiety, and an over-reliance on…
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In this episode, we journey with Genevieve White, a seasoned artist and performer, as she shares her path from her multicultural roots in Canada to the vibrant art scene of New York City—recorded in the tranquil atmosphere of Berlin’s Grunewald Forest as a conversation with host and transdisciplinary artist Emeka Okereke. Genevieve’s story reveals the…
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In this episode of Dots of Thoughts, Emeka Okereke engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Berlin-based artist, producer, and scholar Lukas Freireiss. Renowned for his transdisciplinary approach, Lukas shares his practice of working in a “collage-like manner” that unites artists and cultural producers from diverse fields, transcending conventional boundaries. Lukas introduces Crossroads, his Berlin-based project,…
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Can the simple act of daily gratitude empower and transform your life? In this episode of Dots of Thoughts Podcast, recorded on-site at the Neue Berliner Kunstverein, host Emeka Okereke and guest, Alain Missala, explore the vibrant multicultural landscape of contemporary Berlin.
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