📣ANNOUNCING THE 2026 LOATAD WEST AFRICA ROAD RESIDENTS 📣
Temidayo Testimony Omali Odey, widely known as Testimony Odey (
@testimonyodey ) 🇳🇬, is a Nigerian multidisciplinary artist working across literature, spoken word, music, film, and painting. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in magazines and journals, including Torch Magazine, Poetry Pause, The FEMINIST Magazine, The Deadlands, Kalahari Review, Brittle Paper, PoeticAfrica, Akéwì Magazine, and others. She is a recipient of the Nigerian Prize for Teen Authors, the inaugural African Teen Writers Awards, the HIASFEST Star Prize, the Wakaso Poetry Prize, the JCIN UNIBEN Ten Emerging Leaders and Legacy Award, and the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the University of Benin Award for Arts, Culture and Creative Expression. She was an artist-in-residence at the Rongo Artist Residency and MAAR, served as a judge for the African Teen Writers Awards, and has been shortlisted for the African Human Rights Short Story Prize, the Brigitte Poirson Literature Prize, and the global Writing Ukraine Prize. She serves as a fiction editor at NWF Journal and the Ugly Collective. As a performance poet, she has performed at venues including TEDxUniversityofBenin, Edo’s International Books and Arts Festival, Dr Steven Akintayo’s Growth Business Conference, and Africa Independent Television (AIT). She enjoys philosophical films and Pan-African conversations.
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