
Afro-Finnishness
For the second summer in a row I went to my mother's homeland of Finland and had my mind blown. This time I was hosted by Ruskeat Tytöt (Brown Girls), the first all-POC media platform in the Nordic region. In Helsinki I was blessed to teach a writing workshop for brown women and non-binary folk, which they tell me was historic, the first of its kind! SahWira Africa International invited me to give a workshop for youth in the historic city of Turku to talk about their experien

Finally playing in Helsinki
Thanks to the amazing folks I met at the Afro European Conference in Tampere early this month, I'm now showing my documentary in Helsinki this Saturday . #multiracial #Biracial #Nigerian #Finnish #Multicultural #Identity #PBS #Documentary #Nordic #Afroeuropean #Helsinki #Finland

My African Nordic Summer
What a summer! In early June I presented at the NonfictioNow Conference in Reykjavík Iceland, where I finally met Stockholm-based Nigerian travel photographer Lola Akinmade Åkerström (not pictured) and a cousin (pictured) joined me. In late June / early July I presented at Documenta 14's Gathering of Biafran Children Survivors in Athens, Greece (pictured with Chris Okigbo's daughter Obi) and had lunch with a friend I hadn't seen in 34 years. Now I'm at the Afro European Con