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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.
Email Enuma Okoro @EnumaOkoro  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • 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
    Life & Arts
    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
  • Friday, 12 January, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The many sides of Martin Luther King

    Heroes are human like the rest of us — and we should let their doubts and fears inspire us

  • Wednesday, 10 January, 2024
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Grace Wales Bonner at MoMA — art through the eye of a designer

    Themes of spirit and sound run through her New York show, curated as part of MoMA’s Artist’s Choice series

    A stylishly dressed woman sits on the edge of a Barcelona chair
  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Here’s what we should treasure in the new year

    Moments and journeys need to be cherished and valued as much as any end result we pursue

    A 1660s painting shows a man holding an object to the light near the window of a darkened room  crowded with papers, bottles and equipment
  • Friday, 22 December, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Joseph and the value of ordinary lives

    The quiet carpenter of the Christmas story teaches us about steadfastness and finding wonder in the everyday

    Rembrandt’s 1645 painting ‘Joseph’s Dream’
  • Friday, 8 December, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Finding delight amid the despair

    As seasonal festivities kick off, it’s important to recognise our need to reaffirm social connections

    A painting dated 1878 of an ornate, high-ceilinged ballroom crowded with ladies and gentlemen in period finery, all under a huge chandelier
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    Visual Arts
    Bear witness to both your challenges and triumphs

    Paying attention to our daily joys and sorrows is important — and so too is making space for other people’s stories

  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    Life & Arts
    The art that resets and restores us

    In troubled times, the life-affirming power of paintings offers respite — and moves us towards compassion

    A painting of a woman lying in some grasses on a beach, reading a book
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