Titilope Sonuga

Titilope Sonuga is an award-winning poet, playwright, and performer. Her poetry concert Open has been shown to sold-out audiences around the world. She has published three poetry collections: Down to Earth (2011), Abscess (2014), and This Is How We Disappear (2019), and has released three spoken word albums: Mother Tongue (2011), Swim (2019), and Sis (2024). She was nominated for a Dora Award for Outstanding New Opera for Sankofa, her libretto reimagining Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat. Sonuga has written campaigns for global brands and served as an ambassador for Intel’s She Will Connect, a program to empower women and girls across Africa through technological literacy. She made history as the first poet to perform at a Nigerian presidential inauguration and served as Edmonton’s 9th Poet Laureate.