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Meet Ziwe Fumudoh, Bushwick’s Comedian Bringing Attention to Racial Issues Through Humor

“I hope my voice encourages others in my community to live whatever their weird truth is.”

Meet Ziwe Fumudoh, Bushwick’s  Comedian Bringing Attention to Racial Issues Through Humor

Meet Ziwe Fumudoh, Bushwick’s Comedian Bringing Attention to Racial Issues Through Humor

“I hope my voice encourages others in my community to live whatever their weird truth is.”

Meet Ziwe Fumudoh, Bushwick’s  Comedian Bringing Attention to Racial Issues Through Humor

Spreading joy through comedy is Ziwe Fumudoh’s first priority as a Bushwick-based comedian and writer. At 27 years old, Fumudoh is currently a staff writer on the Showtime show “Desus & Mero,” and constantly works hard at perfecting her performance craft at popular Bushwick clubs like Cobra Club, Starr Bar, and Pine Box Rock Shop crediting them as spaces where she has been able to learn about herself as a performer.

Her road to comedy started in poetry, which was an easy way of her expressing herself while at Northwestern University. Expanding from poetry…

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