[3] Anni Domingo was born in London, England, to Sierra Leonean parents, who when she was four years old decided to go back to their birth country so that their children would grow up with African culture.
[13] Among other work that Domingo undertakes is radio broadcasting, as well as lecturing (at such institutions as St Mary's University, Twickenham, and Rose Bruford College) and directing at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), the Central School of Speech and Drama) and elsewhere, recent productions being Ilé la Wà ("We are Home")[14] by Tolu Agbelusi at Stratford Circus in 2019, and The Story of John Archer[15] at Battersea Arts Centre in 2021.
[18] Domingo's debut novel, Breaking the Maafa Chain, was shortlisted in the 2014 Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize,[19] won the 1918 Myriad Editions First Drafts Competition,[20] is extracted in Margaret Busby's 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa,[21] and was published by Jacaranda Books in 2021.
[23][24][25] In 2019, Domingo won a place at Hedgebrook, a retreat for women writers, and on the National Centre for Writing's "Escalator" programme, enabling her to begin working on her second novel, Ominira.
[22] She was awarded a Harold Moody Postgraduate Research Studentship, launched in 2021, to undertake a PhD at King's College London, investigating how black Victorians have been portrayed in literature based on the media 1850–1880.