Kelechi Okafor is a writer, presenter, actor and tour de force in challenging how we think about race and femininity in tandem, and a regular media contributor.

Kelechi’s best-selling short story collection Edge of Here was published in 2023 combining the ancient and the ultramodern to explore stories of contemporary Black womanhood and was greeted with a plethora of five star reviews at home and abroad while her children’s picture book Strong Like Me published in 2024 sets out to help children discover their power, champion themselves, and be unapologetically secure in who they are.

Her podcast “Say Your Mind” centres around the reclaiming of self through an unflinching observation of society. Kelechi has appeared on the BBC 3 show, Work It – which draws on her experience as a fitness expert and her work in pole dancing and twerking as a form of enabling for women to embrace their bodies and their sensuality. Kelechi founded Kelechnekoff dance studio in 2016.

Kelechi is also published in the anthology, IT’S NOT OK TO FEEL BLUE edited by Scarlett Curtis in the WHO’S LOVING YOU anthology, published by Orion Books in 2021. Kelechi hosted Noughts + Crosses on “Obsessed With….” (the BBC Sounds companion podcast to the BBC1 prime time show), discussing topics in and around Malorie Blackman’s best-selling book and its transition from page to screen