Wana Udobang is a writer, poet, performer and storyteller. A First Class graduate of Journalism from the University of Creative Arts in Farnham, England, she has released three spoken word albums – ‘Dirty Laundry’, ‘In Memory of Forgetting’ and ‘Transcendence’. Her work as a performer has taken her across Africa, Europe and the U.S. even […]
Wana Udobang is a writer, poet, performer and storyteller. A First Class graduate of Journalism from the University of Creative Arts in Farnham, England, she has released three spoken word albums – ‘Dirty Laundry’, ‘In Memory of Forgetting’ and ‘Transcendence’. Her work as a performer has taken her across Africa, Europe and the U.S. even…
She was awarded the International Writing Programme Residency at the University of IOWA in 2021 and the inaugural Ama Ata Aidoo Fellowship at Northwestern University in 2022. With a background in journalism, she has worked as a freelancer with the Guardian, Aljazeera, CNN, Observer as well as producing and presenting documentaries for BBC Radio4 and BBC World Service.
So my poetry always existed even before journalism. But I really started performing poetry in 2008, building community and testing out material with audiences. Bogobiri was one of the places where a lot of poets and I performed weekly for many years, just sharing our work, building friendship and getting encouraged by audience members. It was a fantastic space and community to build my writing and performance muscle.Mostly my experiences and the experiences of others.
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