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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)
  • April 19 2025
    Life & Arts
    A different economic outlook
    Amid the news of market turmoil, we should not ignore the currencies of hospitality, patience and care
  • April 7 2025
    FT GlobetrotterMy Top 10
    My top 10: Enuma Okoro’s picks from Frankfurt’s Städel Museum
    Key works from one of Germany’s most important art collections, from Botticelli to Die Brücke
    ‘The Geographer’ (1669) by Johannes Vermeer: an oil painting of a young man in a blue cloak standing by a latticed window while holding a compass over a scroll of paper
  • April 5 2025
    Life & Arts
    Symbol of renewal, antidote to bleak news — spring is just a beginning
    The season is a celebration of new possibilities
    A close-up of the flowering branches of an almond tree, set against a backdrop of blue sky
  • March 22 2025
    Life & Arts
    In praise of unsung heroines
    We should seek out and celebrate the contributions of women — both in the present day and throughout history
  • February 22 2025
    Life & Arts
    How should we face up to danger?
    Risky situations are part of life — but we have a choice in how we confront them
  • February 8 2025
    Life & Arts
    The subversive power of joy
    Small pleasures lift the spirits, but they can be acts of resistance too
  • February 1 2025
    Life & Arts
    In search of life’s compass
    It’s all too easy to be swept up in the momentum of those around us rather than pausing to develop our own values
  • January 18 2025
    Lifestyle
    Feeling blue? It’s OK not to be OK
    Many of us can find January a struggle but endurance is an underestimated characteristic
  • January 17 2025
    Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast60 min listen
    Our final episode: thank you
    For our last ever episode, Lilah answers listener questions with our top FT critics, columnists and experts about music, cooking, careers and more
  • January 4 2025
    Life & Arts
    Our own work in progress
    Rather than a fresh start, the new year is a time to recognise our lives as an ongoing journey
  • December 24 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
  • December 14 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
  • November 30 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
  • November 16 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
  • November 4 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
  • November 2 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.
  • October 26 2024
    Life & Arts
    Reading — the everyday luxury that opens hearts and minds
    Books invite us to reflect on a multiplicity of worlds
  • October 5 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
  • September 28 2024
    Life & Arts
    The canvas of life’s seasons
    Autumn offers us an opportunity to contemplate our own mortality
  • September 7 2024
    Life & Arts
    How can women navigate later life?
    There is power to be gained in living on one’s own terms
  • August 31 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
  • August 10 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
  • July 6 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?
  • June 23 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
  • June 8 2024
    Life & Arts
    The beauty and burdens we carry
    The physical and emotional weights we bear tell stories about our values, fears and longings
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