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IN MY OWN WORDS

"I come from a place of deep struggles and endless joy, where pain is weaponized and love boundless. Today, my words carry this emotional and cultural baggage to the page."

True power resides in granting each word agency, in breaking conventions to tell YOUR story. It is never about metrics and status, accolades and access.

Storytelling is personal. It is the purest form of expression, organic and volatile, comforting or controversial. It harbors life and foreshadows death.

I strive to make you feel these things when I write, to uncover your most burning desires and recall your deepest fears.

Primary Influences

Novelists

N.K. Jemisin · Ursula K. Le Guin · Octavia E. Butler · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · Rupert Holmes · Bell Hooks · H.G. Wells · Frank J. Herbert · Walter Mosley

Activists

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. · Shelly Bell · Wangarĩ Maathai · Alaa Salah · James Baldwin · Miriam Makeba · Emtithal Mahmoud

Actors

Denzel Washington · Joaquin Phoenix · Leonardo DiCaprio · Viola Davis · Lashana Lynch · Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Musicians

Nas · Wizkid · Fela Kuti · Daniela Mercury · Asake · No Malice