Wana Udobang is an award-winning writer, poet, performer, curator, and strategic storytelling consultant whose multidisciplinary practice investigates cultural memory, womanhood, quiet intimacies, food, and the body. Across a fifteen-year international career, she has established storytelling as an essential framework for dismantling, preserving, and transforming collective histories.
Her four spoken word poetry albums have taken her on stages across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. Wana has been awarded the Ama Ata Aidoo Fellowship at Northwestern University and the Camargo Foundation Fellowship. Her journalism, documentaries, essays, and cultural commentary appear across The Guardian, Observer, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, and Roads & Kingdoms.

As an institutional consultant, she designs methodologies that transform how global museums and foundations engage with public memory and inclusive practice. Her portfolio includes the Zayed National Museum, the Deutsches Museum, the Übersee-Museum, and Fonds Soziokultur, alongside the NEO Lab Fellowship at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (MK&G) Hamburg.
Her curatorial works and public art interventions include Dirty Laundry, Stripped, Who We Are When the Glory Is Gone, Between a Prayer and a Song, and the recipe-mapped food-ways series Reclaiming the Tongue. Earning her international acclaim for their tender, immersive engagement with living archives.

Wana also curates the archival project Culture Diaries and facilitates The Comfort Food Storytelling Workshop which uses food memory to tell new stories.