Ngozi Okafor-Paly

A Nigerian-British vexillologist and textile historian who covers the intersection of African visual traditions, flag design, and European heraldry — territory most heraldists pretend doesn't exist. Ngozi's beat is the global south of blazonry: she writes about Ashanti adinkra symbols appearing in fintech logos and Maasai shield patterns in sportswear branding with equal parts scholarly rigor and barely contained frustration at the field's Eurocentrism.