NKATA: Dots of Thoughts

By Nkata Podcast Station

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Episodes: 32

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I often wake up in the morning with thoughts reeling in my head. Thoughts inspired by a conversation with someone; something I read, heard, listened to (music/podcasts), a film I saw, a photograph I made, an essay/poem I wrote, or in broad terms, an impactful encounter. They exist as disjointed, scattered particles I often refer to as dots of thoughts.Thus, this podcast show is an attempt to articulate, to converse and to put in relation these floating thoughts. While it relies on random impulses, the podcast is structured by thought-prompts focusing on everyday issues across space, time and works of life. Though it is not a live podcast, it somewhat mimics this approach in that for every episode, the conversation, which begins as a monologue, evolves into a dialogue through a phone conversation with someone else in another part of the world (a friend, a colleague, relative, expert in a subject, creator of a work, originator of an idea). This ensures a broadening of the thematic and locational context of the conversation as a way of demystifying distances. It is a weekly show intended to be spontaneous (as much as technical requirements and logistics allow). Future episodes will feature intro/excerpts of new music tracks made by me. Other times, it will reference aural materials sourced from different corners of everyday life. It will be freshly served – nothing preserved in the freezer! Listeners are encouraged to join the conversation by leaving a comment on the episode in their preferred platform of listening. Selected comments will be addressed in a subsequent episode.Emeka Okereke (host)Available on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher, Overcast, etc.

Episode Date
EP30: Language, the Foremost Cultural Archive: Reflections around Igbo Landing
Jun 10, 2026
EP29: A Meditation on Light
May 13, 2026
EP28: The "I AM" is free from all labels
Apr 05, 2026
EP27: Effort, The Ledger of Self-Worth
Feb 07, 2026
EP26: Encounters as Mirrors – Difference and the Long Arc to Oneself - with Tamia Hill
Jan 03, 2026
EP25: Unknotting Identity: The Igbo Language and its Cosmological Insights
Nov 10, 2025
EP24: Presence that Absents Nothing: Beyond the Confines of Thought
Jun 04, 2025
EP23: On Following The Intangible – with Genevieve White
Nov 20, 2024
EP22: "Pleasures in the confusions of boundaries": Transdisciplinary Artistic Practices and Pedagogy – with Lukas Feireiss
Oct 25, 2024
EP21: Dilemma of a New Age: Black Fathers, Resilence, Raising a Child in Berlin - with Alain Missala
Aug 05, 2024
EP20: How Can Photography Shape Political Discourse in the 21st Century? – with Jane Tormey
May 13, 2024
EP19: Polyrhythmic Weavings Across Countries, Continents, and Time – with Batila
Feb 25, 2024
EP18: Rooftop Encounters, and "Living Tangier." – with Abdelmajid Hannoum
Nov 20, 2023
EP17: Confronting Germany's past through colonial relics of the Prussian Palaces – with Carolin Alff
Aug 05, 2023
EP16: Exploring Existential Complexity: A Dive into 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' with You Kim.
Jul 06, 2023
EP15: Finding Home in the Body Through Dance and Ballet - with Diana Mora
Feb 18, 2022
EP14: Being Palestinian, a Life of Permanent Temporality – with Bahaa Abudaya
Dec 28, 2021
EP13: To Organise a place as if it was a photograph – with Eric Gyamfi
Jul 22, 2021
DoTShorts #2: Inner Voice
May 10, 2021
DoTShorts #1: What Are You Working For?
Apr 28, 2021
EP12: Memory, Performance, Healing and Celebration in the Photographic works of Lebohang Kganye.
Mar 15, 2021
EP11: 21st Century Photographers Re-articulate The Continent – with Ekow Eshun
Feb 20, 2021
EP10: Time does not pass. We, on the other hand, pass through it - and make forms of it (Part 3) with J. Redza
Feb 01, 2021
EP09: Time does not pass. We, on the other hand, pass through it – and make forms of it (Part 2) with Jude Anogwih
Dec 28, 2020
EP08: Time does not pass. We, on the other hand, pass through it – and make forms of it (part 1)
Dec 24, 2020
EP07: The Legacy of Queen’s College – A Perspective on Radical Education for Women in Nigeria.
Sep 28, 2020
EP06: Mama Margeret of Afroshop Tropical Markt – 25 Years of Making Life Matter in Berlin.
Jun 04, 2020
EP05: Dalit, A Quest For Dignity – Relating Image-Making to World-Making Through a Photo Book
May 24, 2020
EP04: It Takes Many Trees to Make a Forest – Tribute to Tony Allen
May 14, 2020
EP03: Morrison's Black Book, Chimurenga's Festac '77 – "Unwritable Stories" in a Book Form
Apr 29, 2020
EP02: Neukölln to Bariga from a Bird's View
Apr 17, 2020
EP01: Social Distancing and Its Sides of The Coin
Apr 07, 2020