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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, 21 June, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Dive into the pleasures of summer

    The season of long sunlit days is the time to relish our experience as living, breathing, sensual beings

  • Saturday, 7 June, 2025
    Life & Arts
    The importance of marking life’s milestones

    New junctures can feel unfamiliar and scary — but they offer opportunities too

    An oil painting of a young girl in a white dress with a large white bow in her hair, standing on a stage in front of seated adults and illuminated from above
  • Saturday, 17 May, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Rest, recharge, renew — seeking solace in testing times

    The body tells us when we have reached our limits. We should learn to listen

  • Saturday, 3 May, 2025
    Life & Arts
    What Pope Francis saw in Caravaggio

    The late pontiff understood the role of art in expressing the human condition

    A white dove perches on the outstretched hand of the pope in his white robes
  • Saturday, 19 April, 2025
    Life & Arts
    A different economic outlook

    Amid the news of market turmoil, we should not ignore the currencies of hospitality, patience and care

  • Monday, 7 April, 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
  • Saturday, 5 April, 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
  • Saturday, 22 March, 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

  • Saturday, 22 February, 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

  • Saturday, 8 February, 2025
    Life & Arts
    The subversive power of joy

    Small pleasures lift the spirits, but they can be acts of resistance too

  • Saturday, 1 February, 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

  • Saturday, 18 January, 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

  • Friday, 17 January, 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

  • Saturday, 4 January, 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

  • 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

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