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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, 5 August, 2022
      Life & Arts
      The power of a good question

      Some questions are worth asking even if there are no answers in sight

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      Life & Arts
      The promises we make to ourselves and others

      Where can we turn for help honouring our commitments?

    • Saturday, 9 July, 2022
      FT Magazine
      Enuma Okoro’s fantasy dinner: the queen of Egypt, Harriet Tubman, Oprah and Madam CJ Walker

      The columnist prepares mango and pomegranate salad in a bungalow by the Indian Ocean for her trailblazing guests

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Home truths: how our domestic spaces shape the way we live

      Whether as a sanctuary or as a place for candid discussions, our homes influence our thinking and behaviour

    • 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

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