Field Notes

Dispatches from the archive.

Reporting from workshops, compounds, and communities where Nigeria's material heritage is still practiced, and still at risk.

Aso Òkè: A Textile Civilization

Cloth, power, and the making of cultural memory — how a handwoven strip-textile tradition became civilizational infrastructure.

Inside the last active brass casting workshop of the Isude lineage, and the wider story of a metal that has shaped human life for thousands of years.