Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor. Mami Wata is a pivotal character in the second and third books in the Tristan Strong series by author Kwame Mbalia. In the 2021 novel, Skin of the Sea by Nigerian-Welsh writer Natasha Bowen, Mami Wata is one of the seven creatures created by Yemoja to collect the soul of the dead enslaved Africans and the lead character Simi is a Mami Wata. In 2022, the feature film, Nanny, written and directed by Nikyatu Jusu, portraits the figure of Mami Wata in relation to the main character Aisha, a Senegalese woman living in the US. The film won Best Jury Prize at the Sundance 2022 Film Festival. It was subsequently acquired by Amazon Studios and Blumhouse and opened in the U.S. on November 23, 2022. and on Amazon Prime on December 16, 2022 In the third season of Ghostwriter, the episode "The Eloquent Ghost on the Bayou" featured Mami Wata. Monique Roffey wrote a fictional novel called The Mermaid of Black Conch (2022) featuring a kind of Mami Wata. Names See also Jengu Simbi Michari Madam Koi Koi West African mythology Yemanja Notes References Ogboro-Cole, Oluwgbemiga (2009). "Mami Wata - Short Stories in Nigerian Pidgin English" Athena Verlag, Germany. Nicholson, Paul and Ian Shaw. British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press, 1995. . Further reading Accessed 28 Jan. 2023. FORTE, JUNG RAN. “MIRRORS AND WATERS: The Practice and the Visual in Beninese Mami Wata Cults”. In: Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History. Edited by PATRICIA HAYES and GARY MINKLEY. Ohio University Press, 2019. pp. 283–303. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv224tp5b.16. Accessed 28 Jan. 2023. Accessed 28 Jan. 2023. External links Hounnon Behumbeza Appointed Supreme Chief of Mami Wata February 15, 2020(c) Behumbeza. YouTube Hounnon Behumbeza Elected President of The Association of Mami Wata Adepts (c) Icône TV. YouTube Mami Wata: Water Offering Videos in Benin West Africa (c) YouTube Mami Wata: The Spirits of Luxury: Can Luxury And Spirituality Coexist? YouTube "Water Spirits and Mermaids: The Copperbelt Case" Southeastern Regional Seminar in African Studies Mammy Water, a film by Jean Rouch at Icarus Films Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art 2009 exhibition website African goddesses Caribbean mythology Female legendary creatures Fertility goddesses Fortune goddesses Health goddesses Love and lust goddesses Mother goddesses Sea and river goddesses Snake goddesses South American goddesses Voodoo goddesses Water