Otegha Uwagba

She/her

Journalist and bestselling author​

Otegha Uwagba is a bestselling author and culture journalist who has written three books: the Sunday Times bestseller Little Black Book: A Toolkit for Working Women, the short essay Whites: On Race And Other Falsehoods, published in 2020 and selected as a Guardian Book of the Year, and the Sunday Times bestseller We Need To Talk About Money, a part memoir, part cultural commentary published in 2021 and selected as an Observer Book of the Year.​

A Forbes 30 Under 30 alumnus, she is also an experienced broadcaster and speaker, making regular appearances on BBC Radio 4 and delivering keynotes to organisations including the University of Oxford, Facebook, the London School of Economics and the Tate Modern.​

Between 2016 – 2020 she ran Women Who, a community for creative women she set up with the aim of helping women think, work, and live better. She studied PPE at Oxford, and grew up in south London, where she still resides.