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Titilope Sonuga

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Poet, Playwright, Performer
🎧 Sis, Swim
📕 This Is How We Disappear @writebloodynorth
Former Poet Laureate @cityofedmonton (2021 - 2023)

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The woman is not your mother.

#titilopesonuga #yegartist #poetry

🎥 @ayoerinle.co @shanoki by @titilope

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We made something really beautiful together. Thank you to everyone who came out with your mothers, your sisters, your own aching hearts. I’m so grateful that you chose to spend your time with us.

Thank you @enoch.officialmusic for always being down, for giving so generously of your gifts. Thank you @yaa.creates for gathering and piloting us with such grace.

My girl, @riwoegor…the dazzling gift that you are. Thank you for sharing the stage with me. I think the world of you and it is a pleasure to watch you soar.

Thank you @twosedm for the dreamlike space and Frank Florian for making magic with us.

Thank you @thebanyancollectiondecor for helping bring this gorgeous midnight garden to life and to @annapostss @shanoki for setting the vibes by making every detail right.

Thank you to the incredible visual team:

@Ayoerinle.co
@Justinkulbiskymedia
@Shanoki

Thank you darling @zino.e__ for jumping on board to help everything move smoothly.

Thank you @wheeliamz for every single thing. Thank you God. Thank you God.

We go again. Soon. 💕 by @titilope

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Back on stage this weekend with the fam @melafrique_
There are not enough words for how excited, happy, proud, I feel every time I watch them work. It is going to be a magical night. Grab your tickets in the link in their bio. 💕 by @titilope

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We are a little over a week from NYBALF 2026, and this year we are at The Gatehouse, Harlem Stage for three days of conversations, performances, readings, workshops and encounters around the theme, The Village in the Book: Literature and the Near.

There is so much in the program to be excited about, and we are: Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison; Conceição Evaristo on escrevivência and a literary life; Mahmood Mamdani on Uganda, citizenship and the postcolonial state; Noo Saro-Wiwa and Alexis Okeowo on the Niger Delta; Ibi Zoboi, Candice Iloh and Mahogany L. Browne on young readers and attention; Angela Flournoy and Myriam J. A. Chancy on the people we make family; Ozoz Sokoh and Ashanté Reese on food and gathering; Arie and Chuko Esiri on adapting literature into cinema; Black writing across Portuguese-speaking worlds; and an opening night of poetry that breaks us into the weekend.

We are grateful to the entire ecosystem of support, the institutions opening their doors to us, the writers, poets, scholars, teachers and artists who have said yes to being part of this.

Building a festival means living for months inside spreadsheets, emails, budgets, flight itineraries, venue plans and all the invisible work that sits behind a public gathering, and then the doors open and all of that disappears into people in a room, listening to one another. If you're in New York for the General Assembly or catching the tail of a New York summer for the books, swing by, and we'll be happy to welcome you.

September 18–20, 2026
Harlem, New York
blackandafricanlitfestny.com

#NYBALF2026 #TheVillageintheBook #HarlemStage taken in New York, New York by @titilope

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On how I announced a world tour with just radical faith and vibes…the quiet belief that good things come to those who do not wait.

What goal are you no longer waiting for? Tell me here and I’ll be boosting and sharing. Your collaborator just might be here in the comments.

#notwaiting @notwaiting.africa by @titilope

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The village is gathering.

For the past couple of months, we’ve been building toward the second New York Black and African Literature Festival, imagining what it might mean to bring writers, poets, thinkers and artists from across Africa and its diasporas into the same room in New York, and to ask what literature can still make possible between us.

This year’s theme, The Village in the Book: Literature and the Near, centers the people, places, histories and obligations that become real to us when we attend closely enough.

We are excited to reveal the first set of guests who will be joining us in Harlem this September, selected across countries, traditions, generations and forms. More announcements coming.

We are deeply grateful to everyone who has helped build this festival from an idea into a growing cultural home in New York: our board, team, partners, friends, writers and communities who have believed in what it could become. And now, we want the village there.

Registration for NYBALF 2026 is officially open.

We'll be at the historic Harlem Gatehouse from September 18th. Come spend the weekend with us. Come listen, argue, read, discover, meet someone you didn’t know you needed to meet. Come gather.

#NYBALF2026 #TheVillageInTheBook #Harlem #NewYork taken in New York, New York by @titilope

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We’re opening up event proposals and volunteer signups for the 2026 New York Black and African Literature Festival.

This year’s festival, The Village in the Book: Literature and the Near, will take place September 18th–20th in venues across Harlem, New York.

We’re thinking about what writers owe the communities that receive the work, and what becomes possible when literature is brought into closer contact with material conditions.

If you have an idea for a conversation, reading, workshop, performance, gathering, or community-centered program that speaks to this frame, please send it in.

We’re also opening up for volunteers and collaborators interested working with us on programming, production, hospitality, communications, documentation, and community outreach.

Proposal and volunteer links here: www.blackandafricanlitfestny.com/participate and follow @nyblackaflitfest for updates. taken in New York, New York by @titilope

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#notwaiting by @titilope

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Titilope Sonuga leads the September module of the LIPFest Craft and Development Lab, The Way Back: Language, Embodiment and the Spoken Word.

Writer, poet, playwright, performer, and the 9th Poet Laureate of the City of Edmonton. Author of three award-winning collections and two spoken word albums. Her work moves between the page, the stage, and the screen with rare authority, and she brings all of it to the room.

Applications close Friday, 3 July. Link in bio.

#LIPFestCDL #TitilopeSonuga #AfricanPoetry #OpenCall #LIPFest SpokenWord by @titilope

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Mercy

#titilopesonuga #spokenword #heysis #yegarts #poetry by @titilope

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Happy Africa Day 🖤

I have an unending belief in the people and places that raised me. I owe so much to the ones whose ideas continue to move our continent forward. I’m celebrating the artists, makers, storytellers, poets who find new and inventive ways to remind us who we are.

What are your stories of inspiration? Who are the people you know that are not waiting?

Join the wave
#africaday2026
#notwaiting by @titilope

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25 May 2026. by @titilope

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