Studio Styles is a project I ran from 2020 to 2025 for experiments in fertilising our imagination, through deep enquiry and shared reflection.
Its goal: deeper connections with ourselves, our histories, our communities, and our environment; freer, loving todays and tomorrows.


L: photo by Goodness Agaeze (2023)
R: photo of my Abuja flat where half of the dreaming and tinkering happened (2023)
R: photo of my Abuja flat where half of the dreaming and tinkering happened (2023)
Key projects:
Sweet Medicine: A podcast and resource hub advocating for social healing in Nigeria through the Humanities and Social Sciences. 23 episodes.
Restful (the anthology): An edited collection of essays, interviews and photographs from Nigerians reflecting on stress and respite in our world today. 21 contributors.
#CulturePays: A survey on the financial and wider economic landscape of Nigeria’s culture industry. 388 responses.
Also included: a text club, a monthly opportunities newsletter, social events, and workshops for culture workers across Africa.
Studio Styles was supported in different capacities by
2021: Abuja Literary Festival,
2023: Gradar Futures, Effiom Nyeh,
2024: Aaliyah Ibrahim, the Goethe-Institut Nigeria, the Open Society Foundations,
2025: Silas Ifeanyi, volunteers on the Culture Pay Survey.
Thank you.
I have endless gratitude for the contribution, participation and support from all collaborators, and everyone who showed up to any studio event.
I have endless gratitude for the contribution, participation and support from all collaborators, and everyone who showed up to any studio event.
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Unless otherwise stated, all images and text on this website were made by Immaculata Abba.
Copyright: Immaculata Abba (2017 - 2025)