Njikota Umuada

This body of work reflects on the legacy of the Umuada, the assembly of daughters within Igbo communities, and how this sisterhood has shaped the women in my family across generations. Historically, the Umuada formed structures of solidarity and collective responsibility, gathering to celebrate, mourn, resolve conflict, and sustain one another. Once central to communal life, this tradition now feels increasingly fragile as these forms of gathering slowly recede.



Working with mixed media, including photography, archival family images, my own photographs, digital layering, image transfer, and acrylic on canvas, the works bring together personal and collective histories. The project becomes both an archive and a longing: a way of remembering the communities that held my mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, while asking where and how such circles might exist for women like me now, in the face of urbanization, and migration.