Hello, my name is

Odi Iorfa Agev

Independent Consultant, Researcher & Human Rights Advocate Singer & Visual Storyteller (as Ordizo)

About me

Odi Iorfa Agev is an independent consultant, researcher, and human rights advocate working at the intersection of gender, sexuality, mental health, and social justice. Through research, policy work, and creative storytelling under the name Ordizo, Odi Agev examines how power operates in intimate, social, and cultural spaces, particularly within queer and marginalised communities in Nigeria and West Africa.

My Manifesto

Odi Iorfa Agev works at the intersection of human rights, research, and art, not as a branding exercise, but as a response to how harm, silence, and resistance actually function. Violence, care, and survival rarely exist in a single language or discipline, and neither does this work.

The focus is on how power operates in intimate spaces: bodies, relationships, communities, and memory. Particular attention is given to queer lives shaped by stigma, law, faith, and structural inequality, contexts where harm is often hidden, normalised, or misnamed.

As an independent consultant and researcher, Odi Agev produces analysis, reports, and tools grounded in lived experience and accountable to evidence. The work prioritises what is careful, ethical, and effective, rather than what is fashionable or rhetorically pleasing.

Alongside this work, music and visual storytelling are created under the name Ordizo. These creative projects explore love, violence, tenderness, rupture, healing, and queer existence as political and emotional realities. Art becomes a space to hold complexity that policy language often flattens.

This website functions as an archive of that work. Research sits alongside sound. Data lives next to memory. None of it is accidental.

The work documented here resists spectacle and easy conclusions. It insists on care without sentimentality, analysis without detachment, and storytelling that refuses simplification.

What I do

I work as an independent consultant and researcher, supporting organisations through research, programme strategy, capacity strengthening and creative advocacy.

Core Areas of Work Gender, sexuality and human rights Mental health and psychosocial well-being Intimate partner violence and safety Youth-led and grassroots organising Research, learning, and evidence-based programming

Skills

Advanced Interpersonal Communication
92%
Facilitation and Group Moderation
95%
Mentorship and Capacity Building
89%
Time Management and Task Prioritisation
90%
Initiative and Proactive Problem-Solving
97%

My Experience

May 2021- till date

Independent Activist

Development and Research Consultant

• Program Consultant for Nigeria and Ghana, The Emerging Markets Foundation (EMpower) – responsible for the programmatic work and managing the grantee partnerships in the regions (July 2022 – date)
• Country Co-consultant for Initiative d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO) research – collect data at the country level from LGBTIQ-led groups/organisations and technical partners working with LGBTIQ+ in Nigeria, and develop country Report (July – August, 2021).
• Country Consultant to conduct needs assessment for LBQ women in the Southwest Nigeria for Initiative for Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Awareness (ISHRA), (December 2021 – February 2022).
• Organising and facilitating capacity building workshops for civil society organisations and human rights defenders

Oct. 2019 – May 2021

Society for Family Health, Nigeria

Key Population and Programs Specialist, KP-CARE 2 Project, Adamawa and Bauchi States

Public service announcement (PSA) on Intimate Partner Violence in Nigeria

Photo Gallery