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Poetry Please;Titilope Sonuga’s Hide and Seek

  When it comes to poetry envy, after Warsanshire, it has to be Titilope Sonuga. Her words are so vivid you feel like you can taste them. Titi’s latest offering are a compendium on her thoughts on the terrorist bombings that have been going on in  Nigeria and of course the case of the two […]

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Words and Inspirations;Not for sale

  So i finally recorded a few more videos for the ‘Words and Inspirations’ series. It is five videos in total so please subscribe to my channel and feel free to share. It is www.youtube.com/misswanawana Not for sale is an ode to love. I wanted to do something that wasn’t typically dark and torturous. I […]

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Words and Inspirations

  So we celebrated International women’s day over the weekend, sure you can only imagine all the activities that happened. A couple of weeks ago though, i decided to record a few of my poems in the form of a series of web videos titled Words and Inspirations. I just wanted to give some context […]

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Not for sale

So here is one of the poems off my spoken word audio project ‘Dirty Laundry‘. The poem is called Not for sale.  I tell everyone that i am super ’emosh’  so the poem happens to be an ode to someone i fell in love with and with whom i shared remarkable experiences. By the way […]

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From Page To Stage

For some reason I have always been a bit insecure about my poetry and fiction. Maybe it is because I wasn’t one of those people who read and wrote ferociously as a child. When I read about writers, I feel a bit like a fraud calling myself one as I’m still trying to play catch […]