Carole Enahoro

Carole Enahoro is a novelist and interdisciplinary artist working across text, image, and sound. Her work explores systems of power, trauma, and resistance, drawing on lived experience while tracing their operation within transnational structures.

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She writes dark satirical novels that expose the operations of transglobal corporations and supranational institutions, tracing how violence is concealed within offshore supply chains, sites of extraction, and disaster capitalism. Her first novel, Doing Dangerously Well, was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and her first two novels were acquired by Random House.

 

Her current book project, Systemic Narcissism: Perpetration, Impact, Resistance, translates doctoral research into a multidisciplinary work combining art, poetry, and case studies for a general readership. It focuses on narcissistic systems—from family structures to transnational corporations—and the tactics they use to evade accountability. She examines the outcomes of a sustained bombardment of psychological tactics, including self-policing, outsourcing, and contagion, which produce trauma as a means of silencing. She is particularly interested in forms of resistance that emerge under such conditions, including malicious compliance, plausible deniability, satire, weaponised incompetence, silence, and the formation of communities that transform isolation into collective strength.

 

Alongside her writing, she creates visual and sonic art about the crimes women carry alone. Her installations confront the systems that silence them, while participatory works move from private rupture toward public articulation and shared resistance. She has exhibited or presented at Tate Britain, the ICA, Royal Festival Hall, SOAS, Oxford University, and the Luminato Festival.

 

She holds a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London (2024), and has worked for over 20 years as a producer, director, and lecturer in film, television, and visual arts across the UK, Canada, and internationally.