Become a Sweet Medicine patron (monthly/annually)

Sweet Medicine began in 2024 as an OSF-funded research and podcast project on social healing through the humanities and social sciences in Nigeria. With that project, one of the key questions I was asking was: How have we Nigerians been taught to think about the world?

Through that question, I explored the relationships that Nigerians have with ourselves, our communities, our histories, and the environment, and I found that Nigerians have increasingly been taught to see knowledge as something to extract value from, rather than a relationship to inhabit and to be transformed by. As a society, we understand education primarily as a pathway to economic survival rather than as a means of cultivating judgment, imagination, citizenship, or ethical life. Following the Structural Adjustment Programs of the 1980s and 1990s, budget allocations and public discourse increasingly valued disciplines according to their immediate economic returns, narrowing how many people came to think about knowledge, development, and what it means to live a good life. And "What will pay?" replaced the questions "What is true?" and "What is good?"

You can listen to all 21 episodes on Spotify, Apple, or the Acast web player (linked).

Making the podcast showed me that the fulfillment of the project would have to be as a globally African humanities library and public education centre. A space for quiet, for gathering, for meeting others across space and time, for wondering, getting lost, finding connection, for knowledge as relationship and transformation, and for building relationships with oneself, one’s community, one’s histories, and the environment.

This subscription is for you if you're interested in becoming a patron for Sweet Medicine. With the subscription, you'll be put on the mailing list for the Sweet Medicine newsletter, which I’m running as a journal of ideas, questions, findings, and sketches in the making of a globally African humanities library and public education centre that feels like home— the idea, the feeling, and the metaphysical location of home. This newsletter is also part of the library, a means to achieving the library's point, insofar as the point of what we do is the journey and not the destination. 

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The N3,000,000 tier is a one-time lifetime subscription.