How have Nigerians been taught to think about how to be in the world?
The Sweet Medicine podcast is a public humanities project produced for three reasons:
to explore the corrosive consequences of defunding education (especially the humanities and social sciences) and cultural production in Nigeria during the 1980s Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs),
to engage with Nigerian researchers and research projects tackling Africa’s unique 21st-century challenges, and
to identify and challenge obstacles to funding solutions and ideological shifts needed to foster a thriving Humanities culture in Nigeria.
The project was researched, produced and hosted by historian and public humanities practitioner, Rose Nneoma Abba, and it was funded through an Open Society Foundations Ideas Workshop Fellowship. The podcast ran between October and December 2024, and is currently in development into a space for communal gathering, learning, dialogue, and reflection.
Produced by studiostyles.org (https://www.studiostyles.org)
Email: rosenneomaabba@gmail.com
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Presenting Sweet Medicine at the annual Humanities Podcast Network Symposium
Hi, I'll be presenting some thoughts and reflections on this podcast at the 6th annual Humanities Podcast Network Symposium taking place next Saturday on 24th October, 2026. (not Friday as I say in the audio)
This year's theme for the symposium is “What to do now?”: Humanities Podcasting Agency and Avowal.
From the organisers:
We are living through a moment that tests the nerve of anyone who makes things, says things, or puts ideas into the world. Public institutions are under pressure. Trust in expertise is fractured. The space for independent, thoughtful voices feels both more necessary and more precarious than at any point in recent memory.
For humanities podcasters — whether you work inside the academy, alongside it, or entirely beyond it — these pressures are personal as well as political. Who gets to speak? Who gets heard? What does it cost to say something true out loud, and what does it cost to stay quiet?
This year’s symposium takes those questions seriously. Agency is about finding and using our power — as creators, as scholars, as communicators — inside systems that were not always built with us in mind. Avowal is about the harder, quieter work of believing that what we do matters: owning our values, claiming our expertise, and trusting that our audiences are worth showing up for.
Together, these ideas form a practice. The 2026 HPN symposium is an invitation to explore that practice in community at our online gathering 23 and 24 October 2026.
It's virtual and free to attend. Register here: HPN Symposium 2026 on Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/6th-annual-humanities-podcasting-network-symposium-agency-avowal-tickets-1990792934257?aff=oddtdtcreator)
More information about the symposium and its schedule: https://humanitiespodnetwork.org/humanities-podcasting-symposium-2026-2/ ( https://humanitiespodnetwork.org/humanities-podcasting-symposium-2026-2/)
Email me if you have any questions you'd like to hear me discuss: rosenneomaabba [at] gmail [dot] com
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6 Jul 2025
What is Fear to You?
Participants in the "Does Your God Sleep?" project explore fear's impact on self-identity, resilience, boundaries, and control, revealing its signals and management in an interview.
29 Jun 2025
Is Your God's Influence Limited to You & Your Territory?
This episode explores young Nigerians' perspectives on God's sovereignty, questioning the limitations of divine influence and the intersection of faith, civic duty, and free will.
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