*my name is Tunde Wey. i am nigerian artist, cook and writer who uses nigerian food to interrogate colonialism, capitalism and racism. i have been featured in The New York Times, NPR, GQ, The Washington Post, VOGUE, Black Enterprise, Food and Wine, and my writing has appeared in the Oxford American, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Roads & Kingdom and a couple cookbooks/ anthologies (light stunt on these hoes :) . in 2019, after almost a decade of undocumented living, i received U.S. permanent resident status and now, just like the honey badger i don’t really give a shit :)


FROM LAGOS. why the name? LAGOS is a port city, the most populous in nigeria and one of the fastest-growing cities in the world. it’s where i was a child, learning and living all the things that my adult heart now remembers as nostalgia. it was where i couldn’t return to for 20 years because of U.S’ discriminatory immigration regime. anyway… i’ve finally been back home and i’m glad


for inquiries: iam@fromlagos.com


* i wrote this bio in 2019. that’s a long time ago. i give many shits now