Marli Owadokun Author · Cultural Curator · Podcaster
Author · Former flight attendant · Cultural curator

A life between the sky and the roots.

Marli Owadokun flew the world with Braniff International. Today she leads readers and travellers back to Brazil's African roots.

Meet Marli Listen to the podcast
Marli Owadokun smiling outdoors in a red crocheted cardigan, in front of a flowering bougainvillea.
Marli Owadokun in a garden wearing a patterned blue kimono, beside a rose bush in bloom.
A young Marli Owadokun in uniform, seated in the engine cowling of a Braniff International jet in the 1970s.
Braniff International · 1970s
The journey

About

Marli Owadokun is an author, podcaster and curator of cultural journeys between Brazil and Africa.

From 1973 to 1982 she flew with Braniff International, one of the first Black Brazilian women to work as a flight attendant — a career that crossed continents, languages and social boundaries.

That life in motion became a body of work about memory and reconnection: books, a podcast, and ancestral journeys that return Africa's living presence to the story Brazil tells about itself.

  • Braniff International, 1973–1982

  • One of the first Black Brazilian women to work as a flight attendant

  • Author · Podcaster · Curator of ancestral journeys

The book

Books

One book, two editions — published in English and in Portuguese.

Cover of the Portuguese edition, “Eu sou negra?!”, a pop-art illustration of a Black woman with an afro.
Edição em português
Cover of the English edition, “I'm Black?!”, a pop-art illustration of a Black woman with an afro.
English edition

I'm Black?!

That's what I thought…

Portuguese edition: Eu sou negra?! — Era o que eu pensava…

[Book description — the story it tells, the question running through it, and what a reader will find inside. One or two paragraphs.]

Buy in English Comprar em Português
Podcast

Podcast

Launching 20 November 2026

“I'm black?”

[PODCAST_PREMISE — the question that gives the podcast its name and the story behind it, drawn from Marli's book. Two to four paragraphs.]

Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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