Sweet Medicine
von Rose Nneoma Abba
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Presenting Sweet Medicine at the annual Humanities Podcast Network…
Presenting Sweet Medicine at the annual Humanities Podcast Network…
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How have Nigerians been taught to think about how to be in the world?
The Sweet Medicine podcast is a public humanities project produced for three reasons:
• to explore the corrosive consequences of defunding education (especially the humanities and social sciences) and cultural production in Nigeria during the 1980s Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs),
• to engage with Nigerian researchers and research projects tackling Africa’s unique 21st-century challenges, and
• to identify and challenge obstacles to funding solutions and ideological shifts needed to foster a thriving Humanities culture in Nigeria.
The project was researched, produced and hosted by historian and public humanities practitioner, Rose Nneoma Abba, and it was funded through an Open Society Foundations Ideas Workshop Fellowship. The podcast ran between October and December 2024, and is currently in development into a space for communal gathering, learning, dialogue, and reflection.
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- Presenting Sweet Medicine at the annual Humanities Podcast Network Symposium · 5 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 24Hi, I'll be presenting some thoughts and reflections on this podcast at the 6th annual Humanities Podcast Network Symposium taking place next Saturday on 24th October, 2026. (not…
- “We can give the world beauty, band for band" - Oluwakemi Agbato · 25 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 21For my final guest episode, I’m with the researcher and designer Oluwakemi Agbato who lives by the question: “How can we make good things to live with?” And explores that…
- "It's not if I can, it's how I can." - Mobolaji Otuyelu · 29 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 20Today’s conversation is with Mobolaji Otuyelu, the founder of two startups—a kitchenware company AGBO ILÉ and Ọjà Wellness Foods, a beverage company. As an entrepreneur focused…
- Chapter 6: Why Take Ownership? What Are Our Bodies Good For? · 24 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 19I've spent the past seven weeks discussing why social healing, why the humanities when people are starving, what do we do with History, what are Nigerian nervous conditions, what…
- "How do we practice landscape democracy?"- Tobiloba Akibo · 37 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 18In this episode, Tobiloba and I talked about transformative environmental justice in Nigeria, Lekki as prime example of land dispossession in Lagos in the name of capitalist…
- "Conflict always leaves people transformed." - Gbope Onigbanjo · 32 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 17In this episode, I speak with Gbope Onigbanjo, a researcher and consultant working in the fields of international affairs, peace studies, and political economy with a…
- Chapter 5: Why Nigeria in the first place? (Guns and Spirits) · 22 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 16This episode is six years in the making. Many of us know the Berlin Conference of 1884, otherwise known as the scramble for Africa which was where European leaders decided how to…
- "I think that art should live and die." - Obayomi Anthony · 51 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 15In this episode, I speak with Obayomi Anthony, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist. Our conversation began with a discussion about his…
- “There are no small roles, only small actors.” - Israel Meriomame Wekpe · 27 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 14In this episode, I speak with Mr Israel Meriomame Wekpe, an all-round theatre practitioner. He is a lecturer in Theatre Arts at the University of Benin and directed a play I was…
- Chapter 4: Nigeria, the family · 22 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 13This episode is best summarised with the following quote from an essay by adrienne maree brown in YES! Magazine: "The way I think of it now is in the framework of the…
- “You owe other people a duty of care.” - Gbemi Adekoya · 46 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 12In this episode, I speak with psychotherapist Gbemi Adekoya (@gbemisoke on X) to explore the complexities of trauma, healing, and personal responsibility in interpersonal…
- "Memory will break your heart, memory will also heal you." - Didi Cheeka · 44 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 11Didi Cheeka is a filmmaker, archivist and critic. In this profound conversation, we explored shared values as the glue for true belonging, Nigerians’ collective trauma, engaging…
- “Resilience is when people have the tools to change.” - Aaliyah O. Ibrahim · 50 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 10In this episode, I spoke with Aaliyah O. Ibrahim, a multidisciplinary artist and international development practitioner about the complexity of Nigerian identity, resilience as a…
- Chapter 3: Nigerian Nervous Conditions · 25 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 9I can trace the kernel of this chapter to February last year when I was asked this question by The Republic for their First Draft series: “The bulk of your work (as a writer…
- "Half of our problems will be solved by knowing what our problems are." - Adefolatomiwa Toye · 40 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 8Adefolatomiwa Toye is a PhD student researching how the architectures of Nigeria’s first universities reveal the politics of nation building in our early post-Independence era…
- "The Nigerian State is very temperamental." - Amarachi Iheke · 58 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 7Amarachi Iheke is a doctoral researcher at Kings College London writing a dissertation on Azanian (South African) resistance anthems. This Saturday, I bring you a really powerful…
- Chapter 2: What do we do with History? · 32 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 6Often I hear young people say, “Thank God our generation is documenting now. Thank God we are only just starting to appreciate archives.” Unfortunately, we are not the first. As…
- July 6 text club: Rethinking fear, affirming life · 41 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 5This Sunday, I bring you a conversation I had with six people who joined the Studio Styles text club meeting on July 6, 2024. This was our third week of discussing Paolo Freire’s…
- "My brother, drop the mask, come let's talk." - Fr Anselm Adodo · 38 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 4This Saturday, I bring you my conversation with Fr Anselm Adodo, the founder of Nigeria’s leading plant medicine research laboratory, Pax Herbals. Fr Anselm is a Benedictine…
- Chapter 1: Why the Humanities and Social Sciences when people are starving? · 24 Min. · Staffel 1 Folge 3In 2020, Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari comforted kidnapped and released school boys in Kankara, Katsina State by telling them that "You children are very lucky. I hope you…
