Vibes

This is a podcast version of my most recent monologue on YouTube! I hope you find this interesting. vibes est vida.

Reflecting on a Substack Essay of mine. Thanks for listening, as always. vibes est vida.

Hey everyone, this episode is an interview I had with Idowu Odeyemi, a Nigerian philosopher working in social and political philosophy, moral philosophy, and social epistemology. Our conversation centres around two of his essays, "African Philosophy cannot be a thing", and "On Accent and Confidence". We also discuss his dissertation, which explores some moral considerations sur...

Hey everyone, in this episode, I discuss an article titled "I Do Not Want To Choose The Restaurant, Honey" with its author, Oliver Vonnegut. You can read the essay here . Our conversation focuses on themes relating to power, surrender, fascism, and all the moral/political issues that arise with these themes. I hope you find it interesting.

Hey everyone, In this episode, I have a wonderful conversation with Katilau Mbindyo, who recently finished her PhD in African Studies at Harvard (slay). Our conversation centres around a bunch of the things that she's spent time with during her time in academia ~ studying Italian, going to seminary and being at Harvard. We talk about African Studies, what it is and what it could be, and we talk ab...

Well hey everyone. Happy '25. In this episode, I monologue for a bit on the first babies of my PhD-- the research papers I worked on in my first term. There is still work to be done on them, and these are all overviews, but I hope you, at the very least, find them interesting. I talk about Fanon and some ethical considerations regarding decolonial violence, and (my issues with) the concept of...

Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of the podcast. You're here, and that's pretty groovy. In this episode, I have a wonderful conversation with Maya, who some of you might know as @skyfisherforskyfish on Tiktok~ You might have seen her videos on practical ways to cripple capitalism, or you might have seen some of her empathy-focused love advice videos. Here, we talk about Maya the artist for...

Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of the podcast. First of all, slay, this episode has some intro music. Let me know what you think of it and if you have a desire for outro music as well. In this episode, I have a chat with Tomris (aka @ philosophy.girl on TikTok). She was doing philosophy tiktoks before they were cool but decided to leave the app for interesting reasons some time ago. Here...

Hey everyone, I'm back from a pretty long hiatus, so that's nice. In this episode, I ramble for a bit on Nigeria, my wonderful home. It includes some stories of interesting/frustrating experiences I've had at airports back home, a section where I dream out loud about how Nigerian politics could be arranged, and it ends with some advice from Frantz Fanon. Thanks for listening, now and always.

Hey everyone, In this episode, I monologue for a bit on Afrocracy-- a concept that I find super interesting. I was going to name this episode "Afro-crazy?" but that seemed a bit much. Anyways, it'd be great to get a conversation going so as always, feel free to reach out with any questions.

Hey everyone, super glad you're here. This is Episode 1 of what I call the Modern Sage Philosophy (MSP) project, inspired by the work of the Kenyan philosopher Henry Odera Oruka . In this series, I hope to interview philosophers who live and work in worlds outside of Western philosophy. This episode is a conversation with Dr Elvis Imafidon on themes in the African Philosophy world. I hope you...

Hey everyone, in this episode, I have a conversation with Julie Uszpolewicz , the editor-in-chief of Phi Magazine , a quarterly publication aimed at showcasing the creative talents of Philosophy students across the globe. Julie has a lot of super cool philosophical/cultural/political insights, and this conversation explores a few of them. We discuss Dune, the Biblical Fall of Man in Political Phil...

Hey everyone. In this episode, I chat with Erifili and Aspa, hosts of the Espresso Epilogues podcast, and we talk about love. This is part two of our conversation on their podcast about the Philosophy of Love and Plato, Kierkegaard and Dostoyevsky. In this one, we focus mainly on Alain de Botton's great book - Essays in Love. I'd definitely recommend reading the book if you haven't before. We talk...

Hey everyone. In this episode, I monologue for a bit on African Philosophy, touching on how I got into the discipline, why it's a bit controversial, academia vs. hoteps and a few other things. I hope you find this interesting. Thanks for being here. With any questions, feel free to reach out on tiktok @godesulloh

In this series, we'll go through a number of poets from Eastern and Western traditions and vibe with their poems about love, God, humanity, family, friendship and other fun stuff. I'll be reading the poems while improvising the music so we can experience the poetry together. I think the vibes are solid, and I hope you do, too. This first episode is on Rabia Basra, an Islamic poet and mysti...

Welcome to the first episode. Glad you're here. In this one, I think out loud for a few minutes about my philosophy of vibing. I talk briefly about some of the thinkers that have shaped this philosophy and my apprach to it. We'll vibe with Kierkegaard, Sartre, LaoZi, Epictetus and Jesus as we try to figure out what it means to vibe.