The third guest of our podcast series ‘The Road Less Traveled’ is David Nnanna Ikpo, a Nigerian lawyer, storyteller, researcher and filmmaker. He finds all his passions quite complementary and despite the growing acceptance of intersciplinary teams, he still finds that he is stuck with assessments that are incomplete and stay in the limbo. There is no protocol for a lawyer who is at a filmmaker and a researcher at the same time. “How do you evaluate my work?”A ‘superhero’ combining all his passions, David is finalising his PhD exploring "a place for indigenous storytelling in Nigerian queer rights advocacy". He also contributes to the diversity of narratives by creating a more complete and complex picture of being queer in Nigeria with his novel Fimisile Forever, a loveaway from the dominant construction of masculinity.In his opinion, art can bring a lot to human rights. “The most striking the most important thing art does for human rights in our world today is questioning. Art questions the scope of it, the depth of it.”He concludes the conversation with a piece of advice for students and alumni of human rights masters who want to use their creativity in their work: Don’t fit in! Deconstruct from the classrooms! He adds a wish for the universities: that the internships offered to students after those masters also include galleries or museums and that students could be co-superivsed by curators and artists.

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