Oluwakemi Agbato
“We can give the world beauty, band for band.”
The Transcript
Oluwakemi Agbato is a writer, researcher, and designer living and working in Lagos, Nigeria. The illuminating question of her life is, “How can we make good things to live with?”
She is the founder and creative director of RENIKEJI, a jewellery design practice where she creates and studies body adornment. She is also the founder of Studio GB, a research, spatial, and object design practice dedicated to making work that continues Nigerian and African design traditions.
She is the founder and creative director of RENIKEJI, a jewellery design practice where she creates and studies body adornment. She is also the founder of Studio GB, a research, spatial, and object design practice dedicated to making work that continues Nigerian and African design traditions.
For my final guest episode, I’m with Oluwakemi Agbato who lives by the question: “How can we make good things to live with?” And explores that question through her research and design studio, Studio GB and her jewellery brand RENIKEJI. This conversation was full of passion on both sides for how history continues to live with us in the objects around us.
Timestamps
04:41 James Baldwin on Suffering and Achieving One’s Own Authority
15:06 The Rich History of Nigerian Silk
19:34 The 1960 Nigeria Exhibition
22:16 “It becomes real, you’re the one pursuing knowledge, knowledge is not pursuing you.”
Full transcript to be uploaded soon.