About

BIOGRAPHY

Wana Udobang is a Nigeria-based freelance journalist, poet and documentary filmmaker who works at the intersection of women’s rights, social justice, climate change, culture and the arts.

She has worked with the BBC Radio4,  BBC World Service, Inspiration FM, Aljazeera, The Guardian, Africa Report, Ozy, Index on Censorship, and News Deeply.

In 2016 she was long listed for the One World Media award in the Women’s rights in Africa award category. She has received the International Reporting Project(IRP) Fellowship, IWMF Great Lakes Reporting Fellowship, and the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fellowship in Cultural Journalism.

Her work as a poet has been featured at the British Library’s Word, Symbol and Song exhibition. Her poetry albums Dirty Laundry and In memory of forgetting explore trauma, womanhood, love and self-renewal. Udobang’s documentary works include; Sensitive Skin, Nylon a short documentary on grief and the video series Warriors exploring the lives of people with sickle cell disease. She is creator of the interview series Culture Diaries. 

She loves food, travel,dancing and people.

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If you would like to hire my services as a journalist, moderator, performance poet do get in touch via

Email – wana@wanawana.net

Twitter @MissWanaWana

Instagram @mswanawana