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During ÌMÍ 2026, we shared space with Sheila Nakitende .nakitende whose practice moves through ecology, indigenous knowl...
18/05/2026

During ÌMÍ 2026, we shared space with Sheila Nakitende .nakitende whose practice moves through ecology, indigenous knowledge, material culture, and regeneration.

She spoke to us about restoring endangered plant species, preserving oral knowledge systems, studying the material cultures surrounding trees, and reimagining indigenous processes of making as pathways toward healing - for both people and environment.

But beyond the work itself, Sheila spoke deeply about process. About collaboration. About how we move through the world together.

For her, what remains and what rises lives in:
the wisdom gathered through process,
the decisions we make,
how we relate,
how we respond to challenges,
and how we continue becoming more human.

A conversation that reminded us that regeneration is not only ecological.
It is relational.
It is communal.
It is deeply personal.

ÌMÍ 2026 — What Remains, What Rises.

During ÌMÍ 2026, we shared space with documentary photographer Victor Adewale for a session on empathy as a way of seei...
12/05/2026

During ÌMÍ 2026, we shared space with documentary photographer Victor Adewale for a session on empathy as a way of seeing.

Through stories, reflections, and conversations around his practice, we explored what it means to engage people, places, and realities with care, attentiveness, and responsibility.

The session reminded us that documentation is not only about capturing images - it is also about presence. About how we look. About what we choose to notice. About the humanity we allow ourselves to encounter.

Empathy became more than emotion.
It became method.
A way of relating to the world.

ÌMÍ 2026 - What Remains, What Rises.

During ÌMÍ 2026, we gathered at Mambaah Cafe for a session with Adam Yawe - an artist whose practice listens closely to...
08/05/2026

During ÌMÍ 2026, we gathered at Mambaah Cafe for a session with Adam Yawe - an artist whose practice listens closely to the city.

In his work, Adam seeks out reference objects within the urban environment, tracing their role in the present, connecting them to the past, and reimagining them toward the future.

Together, we engaged with two of his works - PARAIRA and NYADEBE.

Through sound, poetry, breath, dialogue, and reflection, we entered a shared space of imagination. We listened to music compositions created from the horns of Nairobi’s matatus. We followed poetry that invited dreaming as practice. We paused for embodied and meditative breath-taking.

And we did all of this together.

A session that reminded us that cities speak - through sound, memory, movement, and the objects we often overlook.

ÌMÍ 2026 — What Remains, What Rises.

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During ÌMÍ 2026, we visited the studio of Mr. Silva Imal - a space held with intention, reflection, and purpose.In conv...
28/04/2026

During ÌMÍ 2026, we visited the studio of Mr. Silva Imal - a space held with intention, reflection, and purpose.

In conversation, he reminded us that
what remains is memory,
what rises is possibility,
and creativity is how we move between both.

Through his practice and presence, we sat with questions of purpose - what it means to create, to persist, and to stay grounded in why we do the work we do.

A quiet, powerful moment.
One that stays with us.

ÌMÍ 2026 - What Remains, What Rises.

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During iMi 2026, we visited CPDI for a session with Ms. Nmadili Okwumabua - an invitation into Afrocentric design as me...
27/04/2026

During iMi 2026, we visited CPDI for a session with Ms. Nmadili Okwumabua - an invitation into Afrocentric design as memory, as language, as possibility.

Through her work, we explored how architecture is not just about structures, but about land, history, and the ways people are held within space. We reflected on how design can carry memory, restore identity, and imagine futures rooted in who we are.

In that room, we were asked to see differently.
To think beyond function.
To feel the stories spaces hold - and the ones they can still become.

A moment of learning.
A moment of dreaming.

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ÌMí 2026 - What Remains, What Rises.

During ÌMÍ 2026, Hermes Iyele led a movement masterclass that invited us deeper into the body.A space of presence.Of awa...
02/04/2026

During ÌMÍ 2026, Hermes Iyele led a movement masterclass that invited us deeper into the body.

A space of presence.
Of awareness.
Of returning.

Through guided exploration, participants engaged movement as both expression and inquiry - listening to the body beyond surface, beyond form, beyond expectation.

It was not performing.

The body revealed new pathways, new textures, new possibilities.
A reminder that movement is not just what we do. It’s how we know.

ÌMÍ 2026 - What Remains What Rises

📷 Damilola Bankole

During ÌMÍ 2026, Dede Israel facilitated a workshop titled Writing About Nigeria: Writing About Love.Together, we sat wi...
26/03/2026

During ÌMÍ 2026, Dede Israel facilitated a workshop titled Writing About Nigeria: Writing About Love.

Together, we sat with a question that feels both simple and complex - what does it mean to write about Nigeria through the lens of love?

Through memory, reflection, and shared inquiry, participants engaged writing as a way of navigating personal, historical, and collective archives - not as fixed records, but as living, breathing spaces.

Stories emerged.
Fragments surfaced.
Language stretched to hold tenderness, contradiction, and truth.

In this space, writing became more than expression.
It became a way of seeing.
A way of remembering.
A way of relating.

ÌMÍ 2026 — What Remains, What Rises.

📷 Damilola Bankole

During ÌMÍ 2026, Addy Daniels opened a portal into Afrobuck - an experimental movement language rooted in African rhyth...
24/03/2026

During ÌMÍ 2026, Addy Daniels opened a portal into Afrobuck - an experimental movement language rooted in African rhythm, street dance (Krump foundations), and contemporary exploration.

Existing between tradition and disruption, Afrobuck holds space for ancestral memory, raw emotion, and present-day realities to meet in the body.

This was not about perfecting form.
It was about questioning it.

Through guided improvisation and movement research, participants were invited to listen deeply - to rhythm, to self, to space - and to move from intention rather than imitation.

Here, the body became a site of honesty.
A place to resist fixed aesthetics.
A space to discover a personal voice.

Afrobuck is not static.
It is living.
It is evolving.

ÌMÍ 2026 — What Remains, What Rises.

📷 Damilola Bankole

Drum and Dance Workshop with Blackbones Theatre Kompany brought us back to the pulse.We returned to the fundamentals: so...
19/03/2026

Drum and Dance Workshop with Blackbones Theatre Kompany brought us back to the pulse.

We returned to the fundamentals: sound, movement, connection.
A reminder that rhythm lives in community - in the exchange between hands, feet, breath, and ground.

A shared pulse.
ÌMÍ 2026 — What Remains, What Rises.

During ÌMÍ 2026, Ester Lozano invited us to begin from the body as a living archive.In her workshop, movement became a w...
16/03/2026

During ÌMÍ 2026, Ester Lozano invited us to begin from the body as a living archive.

In her workshop, movement became a way of activating memory - tracing how experiences live within the body and how gestures carry stories across time. Through attentive listening and shared exploration, participants discovered how, in contact with others, movement shifts, deepens, and becomes something new.

Together, we investigated the textures of movement, the quality of gesture, and presence as a living territory.

Here, the body did not simply move.
It remembered.
It narrated.
And in that meeting between bodies, individual memory opened into something collective.

ÌMÍ 2026 — What Remains, What Rises.

📷 by Damilola Bankole

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