This oral history project explores how Nigerian secondary schools shape political identity, civic engagement, and national belonging across generations. Through interviews and documentary storytelling, the research reveals that schools function as microcosms of the nation, forming students’ relationships to society, politics, and migration in ways that continue long after graduation.

This oral history research explores silence as a meaningful form of communication rather than an absence of speech. Through documentary interviews with family members, the project examines how silence can express fear, shame, power, and agency, challenging dominant assumptions about listening and revealing how discomfort often prevents deeper understanding and connection.

Chocolate production is declining due to climate change and disease, threatening global supply. Ecuador’s cacao variety CCN-51, created by Omero Castro Zurita in 1965, offers a disease-resistant, high-yield solution. This MFA documentary project highlights his overlooked legacy and investigates whether CCN-51 can sustainably address the global cocoa shortage.