Aaliyah O. Ibrahim
“Resilience is when people have the tools to change.”
The Transcript
Aaliyah O. Ibrahim is a multidisciplinary artist and international development practitioner. In her development practice, she works at the intersection of resilience and gender-transformative outcomes for human development.
In her artistic practices, fiction and nonfiction, she centers narratives of becoming and intimacy across mediums of language, image, and cloth.
You can learn more about her cross-cutting creative and change practices on her website.
In her artistic practices, fiction and nonfiction, she centers narratives of becoming and intimacy across mediums of language, image, and cloth.
You can learn more about her cross-cutting creative and change practices on her website.
Here is a warm conversation on grappling with belonging and indigeneity in Nigeria today, with Aaliyah O. Ibrahim, a multidisciplinary artist and international development practitioner. We spoke about the complexity of Nigerian identity, resilience as a practice of change, and unity and freedom as practices of difference. Anchoring our conversation was Professor Bedour Alagraa’s concept of ‘The Interminable Catastrophe’.
“i don't pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and began again in the morning.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
“i don't pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and began again in the morning.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
01:19 Exploring the Interminable Catastrophe
09:57 The Otherways, the Otherwise
12:36 Making History and Self-Awareness
16:46 ‘I’m not a healer as much as I am sensitive and I want to be well.’
18:57 Interruption
22:56 Land, Indigeneity, Language and other claims to Nigerianness
34:49 Resilience and Change
38:51 ‘Our intellectual class is getting too comfortable with its nervousness.’
43:38 Afrobeats to whose pockets?
Full transcript to be uploaded soon.