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Enuma Okoro

Life & Arts columnist

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, 23 February, 2024
    Life & Arts
    We should all seek meaning in the mundane

    Rituals and commonplace daily activities can help to sustain a sense of peace in an otherwise chaotic world

    Painting of a young woman pinning sheets on a washing line on a sunny day. The shadows of leaves pattern the white sheets
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    Life & Arts
    We all need play in our lives

    A moment of freedom from our serious selves is both joyful and therapeutic

  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    Arts
    The wonderful possibilities of winter

    This season offers a chance to slow down and reflect on our lives

    A fox in the snow
  • Friday, 12 January, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The many sides of Martin Luther King

    Heroes are human like the rest of us — and we should let their doubts and fears inspire us

  • Wednesday, 10 January, 2024
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Grace Wales Bonner at MoMA — art through the eye of a designer

    Themes of spirit and sound run through her New York show, curated as part of MoMA’s Artist’s Choice series

    A stylishly dressed woman sits on the edge of a Barcelona chair
  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Here’s what we should treasure in the new year

    Moments and journeys need to be cherished and valued as much as any end result we pursue

    A 1660s painting shows a man holding an object to the light near the window of a darkened room crowded with papers, bottles and equipment
  • Friday, 22 December, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Joseph and the value of ordinary lives

    The quiet carpenter of the Christmas story teaches us about steadfastness and finding wonder in the everyday

    Rembrandt’s 1645 painting ‘Joseph’s Dream’
  • Friday, 8 December, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Finding delight amid the despair

    As seasonal festivities kick off, it’s important to recognise our need to reaffirm social connections

    A painting dated 1878 of an ornate, high-ceilinged ballroom crowded with ladies and gentlemen in period finery, all under a huge chandelier
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    Visual Arts
    Bear witness to both your challenges and triumphs

    Paying attention to our daily joys and sorrows is important — and so too is making space for other people’s stories

  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    Life & Arts
    The art that resets and restores us

    In troubled times, the life-affirming power of paintings offers respite — and moves us towards compassion

    A painting of a woman lying in some grasses on a beach, reading a book
  • Friday, 27 October, 2023
    Life & Arts
    A glimpse into the family photo albums of tomorrow

    Images on our phones have changed the way we make our collective memories

  • Friday, 20 October, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Let’s pause for breath and consider our shared humanity

    In our age of division and conflict, it requires reflection to focus on all that we have in common. That’s where art can help

    A bench topped by a slab of pale granite in which are engraved the words: ‘It can be startling to see one’s breath, let alone the breathing of a crowd. You usually don’t believe that people extend that far’
  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    Life & Arts
    The new beginnings within arm’s reach

    Where in our lives could we benefit from letting go?

  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Life & Arts
    When it’s time to dial down the volume

    Finding quiet spaces is vital for our wellbeing — but are we prepared to dwell in them?

  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Sacred journeys

    Pilgrimages can occur almost anywhere if we recognise that our lives are full of meaningful roads and destinations

  • Friday, 25 August, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Let the dance go on

    Summer is a period of vitality but we can harness that energy for other seasons

  • Friday, 4 August, 2023
    Life & Arts
    We’re all part of life’s great orchestra

    The solution to a crisis may lie in recognising how deeply interwoven our lives are

  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Paintings, popes and spiritual lives

    From the Sistine Chapel to an insight into the nature of art

  • Friday, 30 June, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Finding wisdom in the depths

    From mighty whales to the humble goldfish, underwater creatures have much to tell us about living thoughtfully

  • Friday, 16 June, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Machines don’t dream

    Artificial intelligence reminds us what it is to be alive, to create and reflect

  • Friday, 9 June, 2023
    Life & Arts
    The pleasure and possibility of summer

    A pause in the day to connect with nature can change how a person feels physically, mentally and emotionally

  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    Life & Arts
    The lessons of parenting — and being parented

    The relationship between parent and child is complex, and changes over a lifetime

  • Friday, 5 May, 2023
    Life & Arts
    The maps that guide us through our lives

    How do we respond when our routines and pathways are disrupted?

  • Friday, 21 April, 2023
    Life & Arts
    What the birds have to tell us

    Even the humblest of creatures can enrich our lives in surprising ways

  • Friday, 14 April, 2023
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Artist Simone Leigh: ‘My research was fraught with colonial framing’

    The American sculptor discusses moving beyond pernicious tropes about the black body in her first museum survey at ICA Boston

    Artist Simone Leigh, wearing a blue shirt and dark-blue skirt, sits amid ladders and sculpture in progress
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