EP06: "My father always told me that only Love is above the

EP06: "My father always told me that only Love is above the law" Nkata with Uche James Iroha

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This podcast gives an up-close glimpse of Uche James Iroha, a visual artist, thinker and activist who stands, however unobtrusively, at the hinge of history and continues to work for it. It is an ode to one of his catchiest lines: “history is not absent-minded”.

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