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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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  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The lessons of the ‘lowly’ shepherds

    The humble characters of the Nativity story have much to teach us about being open to ideas of spirituality

    A woman in a blue robe kneels, hands clasped, by a baby lying on a makeshift bed in front of her. Several shepherds gather round, as the small child reaches out to touch the lamb that one of the men holds
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    Life & Arts
    When church bells stop us in our tracks

    Often the things we dismiss as interruptions to our busy lives are in fact opportunities for reflection

  • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
    Life & Arts
    We’re all in this together

    A good community is the perfect place in which to confirm, refine or transform our individual perspectives

  • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
    Life & Arts
    When love is not just romance but compassion, too

    A generosity of spirit can guide us through the turmoil of the modern world

  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterMy Top 10
    My top 10: Enuma Okoro’s selection of works by women in Copenhagen’s Hirschsprung Collection

    This intimate museum highlights the beautiful, often-overlooked work of Danish women artists from the 19th and early 20th centuries

    ‘Resignation. Young Woman at the Breakfast Table’ by Bertha Wegmann at Copenhagen’s Hirschsprung Collection
  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Where should we place our faith?

    At a time of deep uncertainty, we should anchor our confidence in the young people who represent the next generation

    Painting of a 16th-century couple sitting side by side. The man looks down at gold coins he is weighing on scales. The woman turns over a leaf of an illuminated prayer book. Other valuables are on the table.
  • Saturday, 26 October, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Reading — the everyday luxury that opens hearts and minds

    Books invite us to reflect on a multiplicity of worlds

  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Life & Arts
    When one door closes . . .

    How should we approach the sometimes daunting opportunities life offers us?

    A painting of a room with a white wall and an open door  with views of the sea
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The canvas of life’s seasons

    Autumn offers us an opportunity to contemplate our own mortality

  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    Life & Arts
    How can women navigate later life?

    There is power to be gained in living on one’s own terms

  • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Why is it so hard to ask for help?

    Seeking aid is not a sign of weakness: it provides the building blocks for our faith in humanity

  • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
    Life & Arts
    In August, the rhythms of the natural world remind us to take stock

    Harvest time encourages us to reflect on where we are in our lives

    A painting of peasants using sickles to cut wheat, which other peasants are bundling into sheaves. A few peasants are taking a break under a tree, sitting and lying on the ground, eating, and drinking. In the middle ground more fields of wheat can be seen, with peasants. The landscape transitions into rolling hills and a village with structures including houses and a church. In the distance are more fields, hills, and a body of water
  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Making peace with our ghosts

    We are all haunted by people and experiences from our past — but can we learn to face them?

  • Sunday, 23 June, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Visions of sanctuary, in life and art

    In a culture that tells us rest is for the weak, we need space to refresh body and mind

    A small white dog with black ears is curled up next to a terracotta pots and a bundle of wood, its eyes slightly open
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The beauty and burdens we carry

    The physical and emotional weights we bear tell stories about our values, fears and longings

  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    Life & Arts
    We should all play a part in raising the next generation

    Our duty to the young is not only to guide them into adulthood, but to listen to their hopes and fears

    A painting of a woman in humble medieval dress standing in a garden, her arm outstretched. Three apparitions float in the air on the left side of the canvas
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The beauty of creative friendships

    We should celebrate those relationships that shape our professional and vocational lives

  • Sunday, 28 April, 2024
    Things to do in Venice
    Venice and the memory of water

    The essential ingredient of life is also a conduit for human connection

    A painting of the Grand Canal in Venice from 1740
  • Sunday, 14 April, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The half-forgotten art of listening

    Music often features in our lives, but we don’t give enough thought to how it can affect us physically and emotionally

  • Friday, 29 March, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Can past betrayals lead to new beginnings?

    The Easter story has more to do with our busy daily lives than you might imagine

    A 17th-century oil painting of a Biblical scene shows a young man in rags on his knees being comforted by an older man in red robes. Other figures stand nearby in the darkness, observing
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Windows on the world

    They offer us a view to the outside — but also invite us to reflect on our interior lives

    A woman sits on a window ledge, smoking a cigarett
  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Feelings in the frame: when paintings pinpoint our emotions

    How visual art — and our own bodies — help us communicate what needs to be heard

    Van Gogh’s 1890 painting shows an old man in blue clothes hunched over on a wooden chair by a blazing fireplace. His elbows rest on his lap while his hands cover his face
  • 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
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