Nenesi Okeke, Mazzi Odu, Tara Hecksher
On the eighth of March, Mazzi Odu launched Get Rid Of Your Cellphone Mummy, her first youngsters’s e book at Ouida Lagos. Odu, who was the inaugural editor-at-large of BellaNaija Model and has had her profession the place her phrases have appeared in US Vogue, Vainness Honest, British Vogue, CNNStyle and quite a few others, was thrilled to be partnering with Ouida Publishing, one Nigeria’s most prestigious homes that’s based by the literary doyenne; Lola Shoneyin who was additionally in attendance.
A few of Nigeria’s main creatives had been readily available to toast her success. Style designers Lisa Folawiyo and Folake Akindele, PR mogul Bola Balogun, music and leisure impresario; Chin Okeke, hospitality and journey skilled Funlola Adefope inside designer Titi Fowora and enterprise titan Charles Anyiam-Osigwe. Friends sipped on Quacktails cocktails and the kids in attendance demolished the real-life tower of puff-puff.
The e book which tells a day within the lifetime of a busy working mom and her five-year-old daughter, is a contemporary fable, reflecting how the over-dependence and use of units usually go away children and family members out within the chilly.
Throughout the studying and speak, Odu and Shoneyin mentioned the significance of stability and the real-life penalties telephones are having on all of us no matter our age.
Mazzi Odu and Lola Shoneyin.
As a author greatest recognized for her work throughout the vogue, jewelry and design area, Odu additionally shared with the viewers the method of writing a youngsters’s e book; the significance of lovely and evocative illustrations, which in her e book had been created by fine-artist Adulphina Imuede, and the way youngsters have to be engaged from the very first web page.
L-R Charles Anyiam-Osigwe & a buddy
Odu beforehand labored in advertising communications for a lot of monetary establishments together with UBA and Oceanic Financial institution and is the holder of an MSc in Worldwide Relations from the London College of Economics and Political Science.
Her first youngsters’s e book, Get Rid Of Your Cellphone Mummy, (Tanja by Ouida, 2025) is a Twenty first-century fable, which sees Tobe, the five-year-old protagonist searching for magical help to deal with her mom’s digital dependency.
Talking on the occasion, Odu stated she hoped
the e book can be a dialog starter, as all of us use our telephones far an excessive amount of and I’m simply as responsible. With it’s light fashionable fable really feel, and a narrative the place all of the characters are primarily based in Lagos, it guarantees to be a recent traditional.
Lola Shoneyin and Mazzi Odu
Mazzi Odu and Olaokun Soyinka.
Titi Fowora, Lisa Folawiyo, Mazzi Odu and Bola Balogun
Friends gathered with telephones out, prepared to hitch the enjoyable
Flo Adefope and Mazzi Odu at Queue Signing
Victoria Odia and Mazzi Odu
Lisa Folawiyo and Mazzi Odu
Efe Fafinre and Mazzi Odu
Crowd in queue
Boye Fowora and Angela Adebayo Agbe-Davies
Folake Akindele and Mazzi Odu
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