ART for the People

S2.02. Multidisciplinary artist Ndidi Dike looks back over her 30 years plus career. She talks about challenging societal expectations and limitations through her art, the implications of gender, and her exploration of subjects including: Slavery, Post-Colonialism, Markets, Consumerism and Globalisation. Her last solo exhibition, titled, ‘Commodities of Consumption and Sites of Extraction in the Global South’ also comes up for discussion.

S2.01. In this no holds barred conversation, Afrobeat heir, Femi Kuti, talks to ART for the People about Legacy+, his recently released joint album with son, Made Kuti. Up for discussion: a wide range of subjects including Nigeria and the African world, growing up as Fela's son, fatherhood, the Covid-19 pandemic and so on.

Bonus Episode. A conversation with Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo, recorded on May 30, 2010. She was in Lagos for the Farafina Literary evening, and podcast host Molara Wood was then Arts & Culture Editor of Next Newspaper. The decade-old conversation retains its freshness and relevance, and was an audio feature for Ake Festival Online in 2020.

Ep. 10. Oli Ekun and Agba are stage names of Oluwatobi Olubiyi, one of the new talents helping to forge new paths in comedy in Nigeria, particularly on social media. He talks to ART for the People about his meteoric rise since bursting onto the scene in 2019. Topics include: code-switching between English and Yoruba, collaboration with John Boyega, living in Ibadan, and the #EndSARS menace.

Ep. 09. The all-round artist talks about his new compilation of 100 Songs, and looks back over his more than four decades in the arts. He touches on his founding of Kakaaki in 1980, his student activism days in the 1970s, his pioneering role in arts journalism in Nigeria, as well as his relationship with many including Niyi Osundare and Hubert Ogunde.