Hi,

I’m Immaculata, a researcher and artist, and I believe in the power of research and reflection—individual, collective, historical—to deepen our capacity for social healing.

I made the Sweet Medicine project to advocate for this belief.

For a career bio, click here.

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Note: 

I’m still holding on to Grace Lee Boggs’s words via adrienne maree brown: Each one of us is an individual practice ground for what the whole can or cannot do, will or will not do. I’m completing another journey round the sun/the groove of looking at what people are doing as what they are practising. Not a badly done version of something else.

In my last note from January, I wrote that I was screaming, crying, and throwing up every day until the Restful book was out in this world. No more screaming, crying and throwing up now. You know that 2 inhale-1 exhale breath your body naturally falls into after some serious screaming and crying. I just finished that, so you know it’s about to be a good sleep. This project turned me inside out, can’t say I’m anything but pleased and grateful.

THINGS COST THINGS. Somebody somewhere is paying for all this *gesticulates widely*.

The Fire in My Memory, winner of 2023 Abebi Award in Afro-Nonfiction on life after the Sosoliso plane crash

Whom Did He Love?,  The Brooklyn Rail (2022) hard to say that any one thing is my favourite thing I’ve written but this is often it

Will Africapitalism Save Africa?, Le Temps (2022)

Can Green Hydrogen tackle Nigeria’s persistent energy poverty?,  Unbias the News  (2023)

In the Dark in Nigeria, Popula (2023)
what poor electricity does to our minds


Face the Music, Wuruwuru/ Wax Poetics (2023) 
on re-constructed Nigerian identities in 1970s album covers