Dots of thoughts

EP26: Encounters as Mirrors – Difference and the Long Arc to Oneself – with Tamia Hill

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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EP25: Unknotting Identity: The Igbo Language and its Cosmological Insights

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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EP24: Presence that Absents Nothing: Beyond the Confines of Thought

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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EP21: Dilemma of a New Age: Black Fathers, Resilence, Raising a Child in Berlin – with Alain Missala

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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