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About

Titilope Sonuga’s bio describes highlights of her career journey as an award-winning Nigerian Canadian poet, writer, performer and playwright.

TITILOPE SONUGA

POET, PLAYWRIGHT & PERFORMER

CLIENTS :

Google
Intel Corporation
NestlÉ
HewleTT-packard
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
White Ribbon Alliance

+ more

 

The story of Titilope Sonuga’s emergence as a globally renowned poet, playwright and performer is a testament to the transformative power of storytelling. She renders, both in verse and performance, a quality of rootedness and unflinching womanhood that extends beyond the bounds of a single poem or poetic performance.

Her genre-defying work has propelled her to a vibrant life in the arts. She is the author of three collections of poetry: Down to Earth (2011), Abscess (2014), and This Is How We Disappear (2019) and has composed two spoken word albums, Mother Tongue (2011) and Swim (2019).

She is a writer who blends a remarkable elegance of craft with an ever-present human quality that carries her words into expansive realms scripting campaigns for global brands, including The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, and the White Ribbon Alliance. She served a two-year term as an ambassador for Intel Corporation’s She Will Connect campaign, a program dedicated to empowering women and girls through technological literacy, commerce, and opportunity.

Titilope Sonuga has written three plays: The Six (an intergenerational exploration of womanhood), Naked (a one-woman play) and Ada the Country (a musical). She played a lead role as an actor in the hit Nigerian television series Gidi Up.

She was the first poet to perform at a Nigerian presidential inauguration in 2015 and was the 9th Poet Laureate of the City of Edmonton (2021-2023).