🇳🇬 MAZZI ODU for 🇿🇦 The African Imaginary at Ake Book Festival 🇳🇬 How we enjoyed our exchange with the whip-smart, articulate and beautifully poised Mazzi Odu at Ake Book Festival in Lagos last November. Mazzi Odu is a writer, editor and creative consultant based in Lagos Nigeria. Of Ugandan descent, she writes extensively on jewellery and design and has an online platform and podcast, Magnus Oculus, where she amplifies the works of creatives at the vanguard of their fields, with a special focus on those from the Global South and its diaspora. Her work has also appeared in some of the world’s leading publications, and she has leant her voice to a number of international conferences and symposia. She has recently published her first children’s book ‘Get Rid of Your Phone Mummy.’ Odu believes stories are the way we best make sense of the world we are in today and craft a better one for tomorrow.
Here are her 5 Favourites:
1. Necessary Fiction by Eloghosa Osunde
2. The Transcendant Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
3. Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
4. Modern Poetry From Africa edited by Gerald Moore
5. So Long A Letter by Mariama Bâ
