✦   ✧   ✦ A Memoir

The
Named
Woman

The mask cracked.
This is what I built from what was underneath.

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◆ Paperback · 142 pages ◆ €12.99 ◆ January 24, 2026
The Named Woman: Philosophical Memoir on Self-Betrayal Patterns and Threshold Exit
The Origin

For the witch
they said I was

I was ten when they called me a witch.

The accusation came in a courtyard in Kaduna. They flogged me in front of the other girls. That night I learned it with my own skin: stay small, and no one calls you dangerous.

For twenty years I bent myself into good, watched my own mouth before I opened it and cut my instincts down to a size nobody would flinch at. The mask became my face.

This is what happened when the mask cracked.

This is a book
about structure.

THE NAMED WOMAN is the death of the performer, and the structure built where she used to stand.

It moves through Nigeria, Hungary, and the online rooms where women trade wisdom and stay stuck. It traces the space between knowing everything and having nothing.

The performance stopped working.
Something had to be built in its place.

It begins with a name you choose yourself, the day you stop waiting for someone else's approval.

If the Studio shows you how I govern the day, and the Rite lets me examine your pattern with you, the book shows you where my own thinking came from.

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This book is for you if

  • You've been called "too much" so many times you made yourself less.
  • You're successful on paper and torn apart underneath.
  • You translate yourself for acceptance and resent yourself for it.
  • You know what you want but apologise for wanting it.
  • You've outgrown self-improvement. You want precision.
  • You're high-capacity, exhausted from carrying everyone, done performing.
Multiple copies of The Named Woman memoir, published 2026

What's inside

Part I
The Witch

The accusation at ten. Boarding school exile. Learning that being seen clearly meant being seen as dangerous.

Part II
The Shapeshifter

Thirteen years performing Zinny instead of Obianuju. Immigration. The self splitting in two. The sovereign witch concert that required the performer to die.

Part III
The Unnamed

The collapse. Living different versions depending on who was watching.

Part IV
The Named Woman

Reclaiming Obianuju. Building ARTOMYSTIC. The 7 Pillars, 7 Laws, 8 Arcs, 10 Dreams. The architecture that holds when performance ends.

Early Praise

"A brutal, precise memoir that refuses comfort and offers something better: coherence."

— Kata Library MOZ

"Obianuju writes like someone who survived by becoming invisible and then chose to become unignorable instead."

— Early Reader
Obianuju Tóth author photo
About the Author

Obianuju Tóth

Flogged at ten for being a witch.

Spent twenty years bending herself into being good.

The mask cracked. She built ARTOMYSTIC from what was underneath.

Born in Nigeria
Living in Hungary
Working in ritual art, music, writing

She lived all 10 self-betrayal patterns.
Now she names yours.

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Stop translating yourself.
Start here.

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Paperback · 142 pages · €12.99 · ARTOMYSTIC Press

The Named Woman: Philosophical Memoir on Self-Betrayal Patterns and Threshold Exit