projects

Current research projects:

Grafting Black Ecological Life in Edinburgh (2024-): Drawing on the horticultural practice of grafting, this research advances a conceptual approach and creative methodology that advances Black ecological life. The project interrogates the University of Edinburgh Institute of Geography’s entangled ecological connections to Caribbean plantation enslavement and honors enslaved ancestors through a project of repair, which includes practices of archival autoethnography, embodied artmaking with plantlife, and site-specific installation within the building. This project emerges from my situated location working at the Institute of Geography, my positionality as an Igbo diasporan and Black Geographer, and as a project of repair linked to my Black Geographies teaching, in development since 2023.

Worldmaking through the Black spatial poetics of Igbo masquerade (2024-): Drawing on Igbo cosmological spatialities as geographic knowledge and practice, this interdisciplinary project weaves together creative and qualitative methods to explore Igbo masquerade in southeastern Nigeria as a Black, poetic, world-making spatial practice. Bringing together poetry, drama, interviews, and sensory ethnography, this project analyses the masquerade’s poetic and performative meanings as spatial expressions.

Previous research and projects:

Children’s community space experiences in Nima: Tracing racializing assemblages of the human (PhD research in Accra, Ghana, undertaken in collaboration with Spread-Out Initiative NGO)

Street vendor exclusion in “modern” market planning (Kumasi, Ghana)

Land Use & Transport Research Study for the Accra Pilot BRT Project (Accra, Ghana)

“Bringing the Community In: Expanding the Space for Community Planning in the Water Sector, Lagos, Nigeria”