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Enuma Okoro

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Enuma Okoro is a weekly columnist for FT Weekend's Life & Arts. She writes on the intersection of arts, culture and life. Based in New York, she is a writer, speaker and cultural curator.
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  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Rethinking the way we travel

    Setting aside our assumptions can help us to discover new places — and become more hospitable at home

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    Life & Arts
    The art of letter-writing and words that make worlds

    In the art and challenge of communication, so much happens in the space between the words

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Small acts that sustain us

    When we feel helpless, we can feel paralysed. How can we stop the spiral?

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Decisions and the bigger picture

    All our choices are made within a wider context that means we can never know quite where they will take us

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Life & Arts
    The joy of living off the clock

    Being liberated from a rigid schedule allows ideas and relationships to flourish

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    InterviewCollecting
    Artsy CMO Everette Taylor: ‘I want to help democratise the art world’

    The collector and entrepreneur says he had to break through barriers before being taken seriously in the industry

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Life & Arts
    A natural history of friendship

    All ecosystems shift and change, even our social ones

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Life & Arts
    We need to talk about anger

    All of us feel the emotion from time to time, but hesitate to discuss it

  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Easter and the moments that change a life

    Our ordinary lives hold the capacity for experiencing true wonder and unexpected epiphanies

  • Saturday, 9 April, 2022
    Visual Arts
    Steve McQueen: ‘For me, the camera is like a magnifying glass’

    As his new exhibition opens in Milan, the artist and film-maker on racial injustice, the importance of community and the untold stories he is driven to relate

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Why Will Smith deserves our compassion

    The actor’s Oscars slap cannot be condoned, but it should remind us all of our human frailty

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Life & Arts
    The lines we cross in our lives

    Remaking ourselves and our relationships takes courage

  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    FT SeriesState of Mind special
    Mindful ways to deal with life’s twists and turns

    ‘After my father died there was something both sacred and mundane about simply putting one foot in front of the other’

  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    Life & Arts
    The importance of the lament

    The acknowledgment that things are not as they should be has a powerful social function

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Why we break bread

    The act of eating together is filled with symbolism, and offers the opportunity to build bridges

  • Tuesday, 22 February, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    Four of the best New York restaurants seen in ‘And Just Like That . . . ’

    The ‘Sex and the City’ reboot might not have been everyone’s dish of the day — but the cool Manhattan eateries frequented by Carrie and the crew are in-crowd pleasers without reservation

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    Life & Arts
    The pleasure principle

    As the pandemic rolls on and world tensions escalate, it is more important than ever to find joy in the simple things

  • Saturday, 12 February, 2022
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Faith Ringgold: ‘Riots would break out right in front of you’

    The artist and activist best known for her quilt paintings finally, at 91, will receive her first full retrospective show

  • Friday, 28 January, 2022
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Artist Kehinde Wiley: ‘I wanted to interrupt the history of these paintings’

    The American portraitist on race and representation, casting models on the streets of south London — and his audience with Barack Obama

  • Tuesday, 21 December, 2021
    Television
    The crafty, comic genius of HBO’s Insecure

    Issa Rae’s series about ‘regular black people living life’ helped to shift the TV landscape

  • Saturday, 11 December, 2021
    Arts
    A season for solidarity

    What an Advent tale about two women’s friendship teaches us about courage and solidarity

  • Friday, 3 December, 2021
    Lunch with the FT
    Filmmaker Ava DuVernay: ‘I was like, “they’re doing this? I can do this”’

    The director, producer and powerhouse on remaking Hollywood — and the question she asks men who want to work for her

  • Saturday, 27 November, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Putting the ‘giving’ into Thanksgiving

    Black Friday and Cyber Monday take the headlines, but Giving Tuesday is chance to make a real difference for others and ourselves

  • Friday, 12 November, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The fine art of finding happiness

    What great painters can teach us about being happy in the here and now

  • Saturday, 6 November, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Halloween and the licence to be anyone

    The celebration gives children and adults the chance to dress up and free their imaginations without the pressures of conformity

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