AUDIO/PODCAST
For over six years Wana hosted the evening Drive Time show on 92.3 Inspiration FM to over five million listeners. She has also presented and produced radio documentaries for BBC Radio4 and BBC World Service. She is the consultant scriptwriter for the Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women podcast
Lonely In Lagos.
Poet and journalist Wana Udobang travels round her home city, Lagos, speaking to people who are lonely and isolated in Africa's most populous city.
She meets a young gay man who opens up about his feelings of isolation in the light of strict laws on homosexuality, and meets a group of displaced women who are coming together to combat loneliness in poverty.
She also hears moving stories about the impact of depression and grief on loneliness, and visits a cycling club and an elderly community centre helping people to feel less lonely in this fast-changing city.
Writing A New Nigeria
A portrait of Nigeria, seen through the eyes of a new generation of writers and poets.
In the first of two programmes spoken word poet Wana Udobang introduces us to Lagos: her home city, a megacity, an economic powerhouse and, according to its resident writers, the craziest, most congested, most entrepreneurial, hustling, joyful, energetic and creative space in Africa. Fela Kuti captured the essence of Lagos in his song Shuffering and Shmiling'.
As she travels around Lagos, Wana considers how writers are reflecting the issues and concerns of contemporary Nigeria. When Boko Haram kidnapped 270 schoolgirls from Chibok in northern Nigeria April 2014, poet Titilope Sonuga responded with 'Hide and Seek', which captured the country's shock and outrage. But the poem also asked the nation to take a long, hard look at itself, asking how it created the conditions which led to the kidnapping.
Adventures From The Bedrooms Of African Women
Hosted by Ghanaian writers Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah and Malaka Grant, Adventures From the Bedrooms of African Women explores African women’s experiences of sex, sexualities, and pleasure.
In this series, our hosts speak to women, gender non-conforming people, and some men from around Africa about what it takes for them to EXPERIENCE SEXUAL PLEASURE.
nothing is off the table when you enter the bedrooms of African women.