Philosophy

EP27: Effort, The Ledger of Self-Worth

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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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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