Two conversations, fifteen years apart, on the disposition that now shapes my regulatory and AI governance work.
In conversation with editor Genevieve Shaw, Dr. Anyabolu reflects on the inseparability of art and medicine in clinical practice, the discipline of listening for what patients say and don't say, and her experience as a Black woman building a career in the NHS — including the mentors, sponsors, and allies who shaped that journey.
Watch the interviewFeatured on Nigeria's national broadcaster and BBC Africa during her year of national service in Kogi State, ahead of her first solo art exhibition, Dr. Anyabolu (then Nkolika Chinelo Obiako) discussed the parallel disciplines that have shaped her practice from the beginning: medicine, inherited from her father, Professor of Otorhinolaryngology Michael Obiako, and art, nurtured from the age of three. The interview captured a young doctor already articulating, on national television, the philosophy she would carry across three countries and twenty years.
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