HeyJaredNKATA: Art and Processes
NKATA is an Igbo word from the language spoken by the Igbo people of Nigeria. It simply means "Conversation".
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EP19 (Part 2): “I Want to Plant my Flag with You All Over Here” - Nkata with Njideka Akunyili Crosby (opens the original)
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Part Two of a two-part conversation. Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s portrait The Obamas: Springing Forth marks another chapter in an illustrious career shaped by Nigerian life, family histories and movement between cultures. Continuing her conversation with Emeka Okereke, she opens a window onto the decisions, uncertainties and encounters within her practice. From the Obama portrait to Lagos and Igbo proverbs, their exchange follows the relationships and inherited knowledge that sustain her work, inc
EP19 (Part 1): “I Want to Plant my Flag with You All Over Here” - Nkata with Njideka Akunyili Crosby (opens the original)
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Part One of a two-part conversation. Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s illustrious career has brought Nigerian life and family histories into some of contemporary art’s most significant spaces. A 2017 MacArthur Fellow, she recently created The Obamas: Springing Forth for the Obama Presidential Center. In conversation with Emeka Okereke, she reflects on the foundations laid by her mother and father, growing up in Nigeria, and the crossings and choices that shaped her life in art. Questions of belonging,
EP18: "Photography Needs Time...Time for Light" – Nkata with Angèle Etoundi Essamba (opens the original)
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In this episode of Art and Processes , Emeka Okereke sits down with Cameroonian photographer Angèle Etoundi Essamba — a defining voice in contemporary African photography whose four-decade career has centered the presence, dignity, and strength of the Black female body. Born in Douala in 1962, Angèle left Cameroon at nine years old for medical treatment in France — a rupture that shaped a lifelong meditation on displacement, belonging, and "home." The conversation moves from that culture shock,
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