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Hi,

I’m Immaculata, a researcher and artist in Enugu, Nigeria. For my career bio, visit here.

collage of my passport photos from 2008–2016

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Sweet Medicine is a manifesto in the form of a 23-episode podcast where I think and talk with other Nigerian researchers about social healing and why the humanities matter today.

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Restful is my edited collection of essays, photographs and interviews by Nigerians on navigating stress in today’s world. Contributors include Etinosa Yvonne, Stella Inabo, Ozoz Sokoh and 18 others.

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writing portfolio highlights

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.

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

You Matter to Me, winner of the Rising Star award, S16 Film Festival (2023)

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

Will Africapitalism Save Africa?, Le Temps (2022)

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

Face the Music, Wuruwuru/ Wax Poetics (2023)
on reconstructed Nigerian identities in 1970s album covers.

Time and the 1947 Abeokuta Women’s Revolt, History Workshop (2022)How did a group of Nigerian women activists in the 1940s think about time and history?