Today I am joined by my first guest, Ifeoluwa Nihinlola, a brilliant writer and scholar I have known for many years.
Ife is a fiction writer and critic from Ogbomoso who holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is now a doctoral candidate at Emory studying African art and masquerade.
He’s currently a fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art.
His work is guided by a principle from cultural theorist Lauren Berlant: that critics have an obligation to produce concepts as transformational infrastructures—so we can see how to get from here to there.
Here, we meditate on:
1. The Nigerian identity, such as it exists.
2. How both Yoruba and Christian faiths were designed to help natives deal with extremely harsh terrains, and how it gave us emergent tools for dealing with uncertainty.
3. How to develop political consciousness in Nigeria
4. Book recommendations
5. Nigerian Marxism — such as it exists.
...and so much more.
