Nadu Ologoudou

Nadu Ologoudou was born in Cotonou, Benin, and it is where she was primarily raised, although she has spent some of her formative years in Canada, France and the United States as well. As a consequence, she often defines home as the place where her books are.

A lifelong writer, her fiction has been published in both French and English. Her short story “Who we were there, who we are now” was longlisted as part of the 2018 Short Story Day Africa contest and published in their ID anthology.

In 2024, she served as guest fiction editor for issue 9 of the Pan-African literary magazine Lolwe.

Her fiction explores questions of home, language and the ways in which silence shapes history.