Bebe Ominira-Bluejack

Born in Nigeria into a Yoruba-Ijaw family just prior to its relocation to Windhoek, Namibia, the Nigerian writer Bebe Ominira-Bluejack was raised and educated there, in Nigeria and, later, in South Africa. She has a mother, a brother and two cats that are loved greatly, and has been writing and performing since she was a child. A feminist of the womanist school, her subjects come in various forms, but surrealism, alienation and metafictionality often occur in her pieces - and her protagonists are usually female. Ms. Ominira-Bluejack has received various honours over the span of her career; a memorial poem that she wrote for the writer Stan Lee - Excelsior - won a Wattpad poetry prize in 2018, a trailer treatment for Hashtag - a film concept that she developed with her brother ‘Shèun Ominira-Bluejack - was selected in 2025 for inclusion in “Soro Soke: What Do You Remember?”, a time capsule and memorial to the victims of #EndSARS that was co-curated by the Goethe Institut Nigeria, the Nwa Ala Collective, and the Art Bridge Project, she was a participant in the Cape Town chapter of the 48 Hour Film Festival 2014 with the short film Take The Stairs (which she co-wrote as part of her film school’s contingent), she took part in the Miss Universe pageant in Windhoek, Namibia, in 1995 as a ‘little sister’ to Narumi Saeki (Miss Japan for that year), and three visual artworks - Albareum Logo, Skittles, and Water Paint - that she and her fellow members of the Albareum Collective made in 2025 were included in “Silence and Motion”, an art exhibition that took place at the Holy Art Gallery in London, England, in February, 2026. She currently serves as an administrator of “African Royal Families” (or “A.R.F.”), an anthropological, genealogical and historical service that her brother co-founded back in 2018.