Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard was born in the Black Forest and holds a degree in journalism. She is a

, production manager, journalist, presenter and filmmaker. Recent projects include the event and film series ReMIX. Africa in Translation (2016/17) and the book publication Narrating African FutureS (co-ed., Routledge 2019). In 2011–2017 she co-directed the annual BIGSAS Festival of African and African-Diasporic Literatures at the University of Bayreuth. Since October 2017 she has been working as project manager and co-director/artistic director at Each One Teach One (EOTO) e.V. in Berlin. Here she is a.o. responsible for the annual literature and art festival AFROLUTION.